A Memoir of S.S. Prentiss, Volumen2C. Scribner's sons, 1855 |
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... admiration all its appropriate functions . At present , it is totally inadequate to the fulfillment of its duty as a medium of domestic commerce , or for the transaction of the most ordinary affairs of business . When Gen. Jackson ...
... admiration all its appropriate functions . At present , it is totally inadequate to the fulfillment of its duty as a medium of domestic commerce , or for the transaction of the most ordinary affairs of business . When Gen. Jackson ...
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... admired friends , then a United States Senator from Kentucky , will show the interest felt in this election , beyond the bounds of Mississippi : — MR DEAR SIR : - FRANKFORT , Sept. 1 , 1839 . In a Vicksburg newspaper sent me by some ...
... admired friends , then a United States Senator from Kentucky , will show the interest felt in this election , beyond the bounds of Mississippi : — MR DEAR SIR : - FRANKFORT , Sept. 1 , 1839 . In a Vicksburg newspaper sent me by some ...
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... Admirable Crichton " could not have become a Napoleon , a Milton , or a Shakespeare . Lord Brougham is too much of an Admirable Crichton for my taste . I am afraid your visit to England has made you aristocratic , from the way you talk ...
... Admirable Crichton " could not have become a Napoleon , a Milton , or a Shakespeare . Lord Brougham is too much of an Admirable Crichton for my taste . I am afraid your visit to England has made you aristocratic , from the way you talk ...
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... admirable essay on Demos- thenes , first published in 1841. Mr. Legare belonged to the Conservative section of the Democratic party : - : - The subject of popular eloquence , always an attractive one in free countries , has been ...
... admirable essay on Demos- thenes , first published in 1841. Mr. Legare belonged to the Conservative section of the Democratic party : - : - The subject of popular eloquence , always an attractive one in free countries , has been ...
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... admiration of the people were , on all sides , offered you . It falls nothing short of a Roman triumphal pro- cession , even in its external show , and when in the one case it is the homage paid to intellectual worth , and in the other ...
... admiration of the people were , on all sides , offered you . It falls nothing short of a Roman triumphal pro- cession , even in its external show , and when in the one case it is the homage paid to intellectual worth , and in the other ...
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Página 562 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath past away a glory from the earth.
Página 502 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Página 502 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Página 579 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel „ While the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Página 170 - Scylla bathing in the sea that parts 660 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore : Nor uglier follow the Night-hag, when call'd In secret riding through the air she comes, Lur'd with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Página 480 - On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
Página 567 - Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow ; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found...
Página 240 - The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every government.
Página 415 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Página 492 - In states there are often some obscure and almost latent causes, things which appear at first view of little moment, on which a very great part of its prosperity or adversity may most essentially depend. The science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing...