Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], 1. kötetTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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24. oldal
... deaths were from four to five hundred daily ; the living were unable to bury the dead , and thousands of carcasses , scattered about the streets and court - yards or piled in heaps at the doors of churches , were left to dissolve in ...
... deaths were from four to five hundred daily ; the living were unable to bury the dead , and thousands of carcasses , scattered about the streets and court - yards or piled in heaps at the doors of churches , were left to dissolve in ...
29. oldal
... death by starvation ; but they must desert their fire- sides , their pursuits , all that makes life dear , and become homeless exiles ; a fate little better than the former . It is strange that Ar- nold's pure soul and clear judgment ...
... death by starvation ; but they must desert their fire- sides , their pursuits , all that makes life dear , and become homeless exiles ; a fate little better than the former . It is strange that Ar- nold's pure soul and clear judgment ...
30. oldal
... deaths . The Austrian flag floated over the captured Genoa but a brief span of time ; for Bonaparte had already descended , like an eagle , from the Alps , and in less than a fortnight afterwards , on the plains of Marengo , shattered ...
... deaths . The Austrian flag floated over the captured Genoa but a brief span of time ; for Bonaparte had already descended , like an eagle , from the Alps , and in less than a fortnight afterwards , on the plains of Marengo , shattered ...
52. oldal
... death . Let us cease , then , to look for a lamp to our feet , in the feeble tapers that glimmer in the sepulchres of the Past . Rather let us hail those ever - burning lights above , in whose beams is the brightness of noon - day ! 3 ...
... death . Let us cease , then , to look for a lamp to our feet , in the feeble tapers that glimmer in the sepulchres of the Past . Rather let us hail those ever - burning lights above , in whose beams is the brightness of noon - day ! 3 ...
56. oldal
... death , a Christian preacher addresses the officers and crew ! May his instructions carry strength and succor to their souls ! But he cannot pronounce in such a place , those highest words of the Master he professes , " Bless- ed are ...
... death , a Christian preacher addresses the officers and crew ! May his instructions carry strength and succor to their souls ! But he cannot pronounce in such a place , those highest words of the Master he professes , " Bless- ed are ...
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370. oldal - Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us ; and to be merciful, just, and pure (Science and Health, p.
178. oldal - Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest, being the character of the Deity ; and, without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.
83. oldal - 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 or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
111. oldal - Ten of them were sheathed in steel. With belted sword and spur on heel: They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day nor yet by night: They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
217. oldal - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
298. oldal - Whereto thus Adam fatherly displeased. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given; He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
324. oldal - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
20. oldal - 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...
45. oldal - 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...
116. oldal - This little State," says Oldmixon, " subsisted in the midst of six Indian nations, without so much as a Militia for its defence.