Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], 1. kötetTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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23. oldal
... less to judge the writer , than to expose the horrors on horrors which he ap- plauds . At Tarragona , above six thousand human be- ings , almost all defenceless , men and women , gray hairs and infant innocence , attractive youth and ...
... less to judge the writer , than to expose the horrors on horrors which he ap- plauds . At Tarragona , above six thousand human be- ings , almost all defenceless , men and women , gray hairs and infant innocence , attractive youth and ...
26. oldal
... less than twenty thousand are found lying where they have fallen , and the whole plain is strewn with half - buried carcasses of men and horses , intermingled with garments dyed in blood , and bones gnawed by dogs and vultures . Who can ...
... less than twenty thousand are found lying where they have fallen , and the whole plain is strewn with half - buried carcasses of men and horses , intermingled with garments dyed in blood , and bones gnawed by dogs and vultures . Who can ...
30. oldal
... less than a fortnight afterwards , on the plains of Marengo , shattered , as with an iron mace , the Austrian empire in Italy . But wasted lands , ruined and famished cities , and slaughtered armies are only a part of " the purple ...
... less than a fortnight afterwards , on the plains of Marengo , shattered , as with an iron mace , the Austrian empire in Italy . But wasted lands , ruined and famished cities , and slaughtered armies are only a part of " the purple ...
35. oldal
... less discerned , in the conflict of large masses , than in the conflict of individuals , though equally present in both . How capriciously the wheel turned when the fortunes of Rome were staked on the combat between the Horatii and ...
... less discerned , in the conflict of large masses , than in the conflict of individuals , though equally present in both . How capriciously the wheel turned when the fortunes of Rome were staked on the combat between the Horatii and ...
44. oldal
... less amena- ble to the supreme moral law ? Each individual is an atom of the mass . Must not the mass , in its con- science , be like the individuals of which it is com- posed ? Shall the mass , in its relations with other masses , do ...
... less amena- ble to the supreme moral law ? Each individual is an atom of the mass . Must not the mass , in its con- science , be like the individuals of which it is com- posed ? Shall the mass , in its relations with other masses , do ...
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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.