Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], 1. kötetTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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12. oldal
... Church on this National Sabbath , by the thump of drum and with the parade of bristling bayonets . It is not strange , then , that the Spirit of War still finds a home among us ; nor that its Honors 12 THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS .
... Church on this National Sabbath , by the thump of drum and with the parade of bristling bayonets . It is not strange , then , that the Spirit of War still finds a home among us ; nor that its Honors 12 THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS .
22. oldal
... churches were burnt . " * This was in a barbarous age . But popular writers , 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 ...
... churches were burnt . " * This was in a barbarous age . But popular writers , 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 ...
23. oldal
... churches were desecrated , the cellars of wine and spirits were pillaged ; fire was wantonly applied to different parts of the city ; and brutal intoxication spread in every direction . It was only when the drunken men dropped from ...
... churches were desecrated , the cellars of wine and spirits were pillaged ; fire was wantonly applied to different parts of the city ; and brutal intoxication spread in every direction . It was only when the drunken men dropped from ...
24. oldal
... churches , were left to dissolve in their own corruption , or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses . The city was shaken to its foundation by sixteen thousand shells thrown during the bombardment , and the explosion of ...
... churches , were left to dissolve in their own corruption , or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses . The city was shaken to its foundation by sixteen thousand shells thrown during the bombardment , and the explosion of ...
27. oldal
... churches rich with marble floors and rarest pictures , - - - - ― - her palaces of ancient doges and admirals yet spared by the hand of Time , her close streets , thronged by one hundred thousand inhabitants , at the feet of the maritime ...
... churches rich with marble floors and rarest pictures , - - - - ― - her palaces of ancient doges and admirals yet spared by the hand of Time , her close streets , thronged by one hundred thousand inhabitants , at the feet of the maritime ...
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368. 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.
109. 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.
81. 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 and forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
215. 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...
18. 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...
194. oldal - Aid the dawning tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men; Aid it, paper — aid it type, — Aid it, for the hour is ripe, And our earnest must not slacken Into play; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way!
43. 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...
114. oldal - This little State," says Oldmixon, " subsisted in the midst of six Indian nations, without so much as a Militia for its defence.
176. 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.
401. oldal - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.