The Art of Phonography: A Complete Instructor in the Best Method of Shorthand for All Kinds of Verbatim Work, with the Author's Latest Improvements

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G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1898 - 455 oldal

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421. oldal - I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world: it is - the charity of Its silence. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
405. 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 very greatest as not exempted from her power...
421. oldal - By a law of their nature, they seem destined to a slow, but sure extinction. Everywhere, at the approach of the white man, they fade away. We hear the rustling of their footsteps, like that of the withered leaves of autumn, and they are gone forever. They pass mournfully by us, and they return no more.
422. oldal - The ashes are cold on their native hearths. The smoke no longer curls round their lowly cabins, They move on with a slow, unsteady step. The white man is upon their heels, for terror or despatch ; but they heed him not.
405. oldal - Blackstone also describes it as "a science which distinguishes the criterions of right and wrong ; which teaches to establish the one, and to prevent, punish, or redress the other; which employs in its theory the noblest faculties of the soul, and exerts in its practice the cardinal virtues of the heart ; a science which is universal in its use and extent, accommodated to each individual, yet comprehending the whole community.
421. oldal - Where are the villages, and warriors, and youth? the sachems and the tribes ? the hunters and their families ? They have perished. They are consumed. The wasting pestilence has not alone done the mighty work.
420. oldal - Let no man dare, when I am dead, to charge me with dishonor ; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence...
421. oldal - Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
418. oldal - Humanity and an offence against God ? But the earnest, unselfish Reformer, — born into a state of darkness, evil, and suffering, and honestly striving to replace these by light, and purity, and happiness, — he may fall and die, as so many have done before him, but he cannot fail. His vindication shall gleam from the walls of his hovel, his dungeon, his tomb ; it shall shine in the radiant eyes of uncorrupted Childhood, and fall in blessings from the lips of high-hearted, generous Youth. As the...
423. oldal - ... from being without poetry, as some have vainly alleged, our whole country is one great poem. Sir, it is so ; and if there be a man that can think of what is doing, in all parts of this most blessed of all lands, to embellish and advance it, — who can contemplate that living mass of intelligence, activity and improvement, as it rolls on, in its sure and steady progress, to the uttermost extremities of the West, — who can see scenes of savage desolation transformed, almost with the suddenness...

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