The True Grandeur of Nations: an Oration Delivered Before the Authorities of the City of Boston, July 4, 1845J. H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1845 - 104 páginas |
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... and an * For a sketch of the labors and examples which tend to the establishment of a System of Arbitration , or a Congress of Nations , see Appendix , Note C. accomplishment , and as such admitted into the system of 29.
... and an * For a sketch of the labors and examples which tend to the establishment of a System of Arbitration , or a Congress of Nations , see Appendix , Note C. accomplishment , and as such admitted into the system of 29.
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... establishment , and $ 170,437,684 to the naval establishment ; the two , forming an aggregate of $ 538,964,278 . Deducting from this sum the appropriations during three years of war , and we shall find that more than four hundred ...
... establishment , and $ 170,437,684 to the naval establishment ; the two , forming an aggregate of $ 538,964,278 . Deducting from this sum the appropriations during three years of war , and we shall find that more than four hundred ...
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... establishment of the Unit- ed States . It was only when the country , at a later day , had been touched by the insanity of war , that it surrendered to military prejudices , and , abandoning the true economy of a Republic , cultivated a ...
... establishment of the Unit- ed States . It was only when the country , at a later day , had been touched by the insanity of war , that it surrendered to military prejudices , and , abandoning the true economy of a Republic , cultivated a ...
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... monarchs of the Old World , like the chiefs of * The amount appropriated by Congress for the Institution of West Point , since its establishment , is $ 4,002,901 15 . the ancient German tribes , are upborne on the shields 59.
... monarchs of the Old World , like the chiefs of * The amount appropriated by Congress for the Institution of West Point , since its establishment , is $ 4,002,901 15 . the ancient German tribes , are upborne on the shields 59.
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... establishment of a General Con- vention , or Congress of Nations , to adjudge questions between nations , and thus supersede the imagined necessity of war . Would it not be an act of moral dig- nity , becoming the character , which it ...
... establishment of a General Con- vention , or Congress of Nations , to adjudge questions between nations , and thus supersede the imagined necessity of war . Would it not be an act of moral dig- nity , becoming the character , which it ...
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Página 56 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Página 37 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Página 10 - In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Página 26 - Wherefore that here we may briefly end : of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Página 82 - Know thyself," still speaks to an ignorant world from the distant letters of gold at Delphi ; know thyself; know that the moral nature is the most noble part of man; transcending far that part which is the seat of passion, strife, and war; nobler than the intellect itself. Suppose war to be decided by force, where is the glory ? Suppose it to be decided by chance, where is the glory? No; true greatness consists in imitating, as near as is possible for finite man, the perfections of an Infinite Creator;...
Página 78 - LAWS of this government, to the great end of all government, viz: to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their just administration: for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Página 80 - II. cap. 23. aspire to the true glory, and what is higher than glory, the great good, of taking the lead in the disarming of the nations. Let us abandon the system of preparation for war, in time of Peace, as irrational, unchristian, vainly prodigal of expense, and having a direct tendency to excite the very evil against which it professes to guard.
Página 13 - Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajos...
Página 2 - I propose to inquire what, in our age, are the true objects of national ambition — what is truly national glory — national honor — what is the true grandeur of nations. I hope to rescue these terms, so powerful over the minds of men, from the mistaken objects to which they are applied, from deeds of war and the extension of empire, that henceforward they may be attached only to acts of justice and humanity.
Página 86 - To this great work let me summon you. That future which filled the lofty visions of the sages and bards of Greece and Rome, which was foretold by the prophets and heralded by the evangelists, when man in happy isles, or in a new paradise, shall confess the loveliness of peace, may be secured by your care, if not for yourselves, at least for your children. Believe that you can do it, and you can do it. The true golden age is before you, not behind you. If...