Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], 1. kötetTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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11. oldal
... side , by an act of unjust legisla- tion , extending our power over Texas , we have en- dangered Peace with Mexico ; while on the other , by a presumptuous assertion of a disputed claim to a worthless territory beyond the Rocky ...
... side , by an act of unjust legisla- tion , extending our power over Texas , we have en- dangered Peace with Mexico ; while on the other , by a presumptuous assertion of a disputed claim to a worthless territory beyond the Rocky ...
15. oldal
... side . " ( Works , Vol . III . p . 40. ) This definition of the English philosopher has been adopted by the American jurist , Chancellor Kent , in his authoritative Commen- taries on American Law , ( Vol . I. p . 46. ) The Swiss ...
... side . " ( Works , Vol . III . p . 40. ) This definition of the English philosopher has been adopted by the American jurist , Chancellor Kent , in his authoritative Commen- taries on American Law , ( Vol . I. p . 46. ) The Swiss ...
17. oldal
... side we assert a title to Texas , which is disputed ; and on the other side , we assert a title to Oregon , which is disputed . Surely it is only according to " martial logic , " or the " flash language " of a dishonest patriotism ...
... side we assert a title to Texas , which is disputed ; and on the other side , we assert a title to Oregon , which is disputed . Surely it is only according to " martial logic , " or the " flash language " of a dishonest patriotism ...
23. oldal
... sides min- gled fearfully with the groans of the wounded . The 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 ...
... sides min- gled fearfully with the groans of the wounded . The 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 ...
25. oldal
... side , resound with the dismal clamors and groans of dying men . At Salamanca , long after the battle , we behold the ground strewn with the fragments of casques and cuirasses , and still blanched by the skeletons of those who fell . We ...
... side , resound with the dismal clamors and groans of dying men . At Salamanca , long after the battle , we behold the ground strewn with the fragments of casques and cuirasses , and still blanched by the skeletons of those who fell . We ...
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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.