Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], 1. kötetTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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22. oldal
... , in our own day , dazzled by those false ideas of greatness , at which reason and Christianity blush , do * Froissart , c . 178 , p . 68 . not hesitate to dwell on similar scenes with terms of 22 THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS .
... , in our own day , dazzled by those false ideas of greatness , at which reason and Christianity blush , do * Froissart , c . 178 , p . 68 . not hesitate to dwell on similar scenes with terms of 22 THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS .
23. oldal
Charles Sumner. not hesitate to dwell on similar scenes with terms of rapture and eulogy . Even the beautiful soul of Wil ... scene of plunder and violence , while shouts and screams on all sides min- gled fearfully with the groans of the ...
Charles Sumner. not hesitate to dwell on similar scenes with terms of rapture and eulogy . Even the beautiful soul of Wil ... scene of plunder and violence , while shouts and screams on all sides min- gled fearfully with the groans of the ...
24. oldal
... scenes were again enacted with added atrocities . Let the story be told in the words of a partial historian : " Shameless rapacity , brutal intemperance , savage lust , cruelty and murder , shrieks and piteous lamentations , groans ...
... scenes were again enacted with added atrocities . Let the story be told in the words of a partial historian : " Shameless rapacity , brutal intemperance , savage lust , cruelty and murder , shrieks and piteous lamentations , groans ...
80. oldal
... scene , and cast your eyes upon another object . There now swings idly at her moorings , in this harbor , a ship of the line , the Ohio , carrying ninety guns , finished as late as 1836 for $ 547,888 ; repaired only two years afterwards ...
... scene , and cast your eyes upon another object . There now swings idly at her moorings , in this harbor , a ship of the line , the Ohio , carrying ninety guns , finished as late as 1836 for $ 547,888 ; repaired only two years afterwards ...
100. oldal
... scenes which we behold , illumined by that Auroral light , is the peaceful visit of the aged Priam to the tent of Achilles to entreat the body of his son . The fierce combat has ended in the death of Hector , whose unhonored corse the ...
... scenes which we behold , illumined by that Auroral light , is the peaceful visit of the aged Priam to the tent of Achilles to entreat the body of his son . The fierce combat has ended in the death of Hector , whose unhonored corse the ...
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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.