The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and with Introductions, 15. kötetMerrill and Baker, 1898 - 9822 oldal |
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6828. oldal
... English means doubter , a name ad- mirably descriptive of his deliberative habits . For , though he was a man shut up within himself like an oyster , and of such a profoundly reflective turn that he scarcely ever spoke except in ...
... English means doubter , a name ad- mirably descriptive of his deliberative habits . For , though he was a man shut up within himself like an oyster , and of such a profoundly reflective turn that he scarcely ever spoke except in ...
6864. oldal
... English writer , of which I was extreamly ambitious . My time for these exercises and for reading was at night , after work or before it began in the morning , or on Sundays , when I çontrived to be in the printing house alone , evading ...
... English writer , of which I was extreamly ambitious . My time for these exercises and for reading was at night , after work or before it began in the morning , or on Sundays , when I çontrived to be in the printing house alone , evading ...
6865. oldal
... English grammar ( I think it was Greenwood's ) , at the end of which there were two little sketches of the arts of rhetoric and logic , the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method ; and soon after I procur'd ...
... English grammar ( I think it was Greenwood's ) , at the end of which there were two little sketches of the arts of rhetoric and logic , the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method ; and soon after I procur'd ...
6876. oldal
... English novelist and humorist , was born in Calcutta , India , July 19 , 1811 , and died December 24 , 1863. He studied for an artist , but could not learn to draw , and after some years of struggle began to make a name in Fraser's ...
... English novelist and humorist , was born in Calcutta , India , July 19 , 1811 , and died December 24 , 1863. He studied for an artist , but could not learn to draw , and after some years of struggle began to make a name in Fraser's ...
6877. oldal
... English gentlemen would let him ; but they reply invariably that we are only raw provincials , and don't know what disciplined British troops can do . Had they not best hasten forwards and make turnpike roads and have com- fortable inns ...
... English gentlemen would let him ; but they reply invariably that we are only raw provincials , and don't know what disciplined British troops can do . Had they not best hasten forwards and make turnpike roads and have com- fortable inns ...
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6954. oldal - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
7300. oldal - O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
7304. oldal - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me : As he died to make men holy, let us...
6935. oldal - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
6952. oldal - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
7284. oldal - At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
7304. oldal - MINE eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord : He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword : His truth is marching on.
6918. oldal - I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone.
7304. oldal - I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps; His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; 10 Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.
6918. oldal - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.