Southern Literature from 1579-1895: A Comprehensive Review, with Copious Extracts and Criticisms for the Use of Schools and the General ReaderB.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1895 - 540 oldal |
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... given in class . Geography must also go hand in hand with history , a point now well understood . But its importance can hardly be exaggerated and its practice is of the utmost value . One must use maps to study and read intelligently ...
... given in class . Geography must also go hand in hand with history , a point now well understood . But its importance can hardly be exaggerated and its practice is of the utmost value . One must use maps to study and read intelligently ...
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... given for reading , -too little , it is feared , to be of much service , and yet enough to stimulate to further interest and study . The materials have been found so abundant , even so much more abundant than I suspected when ...
... given for reading , -too little , it is feared , to be of much service , and yet enough to stimulate to further interest and study . The materials have been found so abundant , even so much more abundant than I suspected when ...
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... given them , equally removed from over - praise and from deprecia- tion . If we , their countrymen , do not know and honor them , who can be expected to do so ? No people is great whose memory is lost , whose interest centres in the ...
... given them , equally removed from over - praise and from deprecia- tion . If we , their countrymen , do not know and honor them , who can be expected to do so ? No people is great whose memory is lost , whose interest centres in the ...
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... given for reading , too little , it is feared , to be of much service , and yet enough to stimulate to further interest and study . The materials have been found so abundant , even so much more abundant than I suspected when undertaking ...
... given for reading , too little , it is feared , to be of much service , and yet enough to stimulate to further interest and study . The materials have been found so abundant , even so much more abundant than I suspected when undertaking ...
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... given them , equally removed from over - praise and from deprecia- tion . If we , their countrymen , do not know and honor them , who can be expected to do so ? No people is great whose memory is lost , whose interest centres in the ...
... given them , equally removed from over - praise and from deprecia- tion . If we , their countrymen , do not know and honor them , who can be expected to do so ? No people is great whose memory is lost , whose interest centres in the ...
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278. oldal - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! " I shrieked, upstarting' "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
74. oldal - ... the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character in governments purely elective it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose, and there being constant danger of excess the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest instead of warming, it should consume.
76. oldal - And can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity...
75. oldal - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
277. oldal - thing of evil ! — prophet still, if bird or devil; — Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted — On this home by horror haunted — tell me truly, I implore — • Is there — is there balm in Gilead — tell me — tell me, I implore ! " Quoth the raven,
147. oldal - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more ? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps
75. oldal - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
93. oldal - ... truth is great and will prevail, if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them...
276. oldal - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore.
147. oldal - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?