Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867Little, Brown,, 1867 - 637 oldal |
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7. oldal
... certainly how little it was needed , to his own fame . We realize , too , that not only has the country gone on in its astonishing career of prosperity and power under the Presidency of inferior men , but that he himself has done quite ...
... certainly how little it was needed , to his own fame . We realize , too , that not only has the country gone on in its astonishing career of prosperity and power under the Presidency of inferior men , but that he himself has done quite ...
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... certainly be a most ungracious remark for one standing in the immediate presence , and appealing to the immediate indulgence , of so dis- tinguished and brilliant an assembly . Great results , I know , are to be produced , and great ...
... certainly be a most ungracious remark for one standing in the immediate presence , and appealing to the immediate indulgence , of so dis- tinguished and brilliant an assembly . Great results , I know , are to be produced , and great ...
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... certainly , an exception to the Lyells and Bucklands , the Whewells and Her- schells , the Owens and Murchisons and Hugh Millers of Old England , and whose writings , let me add , furnish so striking a contrast to the beautiful strain ...
... certainly , an exception to the Lyells and Bucklands , the Whewells and Her- schells , the Owens and Murchisons and Hugh Millers of Old England , and whose writings , let me add , furnish so striking a contrast to the beautiful strain ...
60. oldal
... certainly is with our liberties : the condition of both may be described by the striking couplet of Dryden : — " Our only grievance is excess of ease , Freedom our pain , and plenty our disease . " Other Governments can do much more for ...
... certainly is with our liberties : the condition of both may be described by the striking couplet of Dryden : — " Our only grievance is excess of ease , Freedom our pain , and plenty our disease . " Other Governments can do much more for ...
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... certainly as if her own house were about to be left unto her desolate , if the time should ever come when the wheat of Penn- sylvania and Maryland , and the pork of Ohio , and the beef and mutton of New York and Vermont , and the yellow ...
... certainly as if her own house were about to be left unto her desolate , if the time should ever come when the wheat of Penn- sylvania and Maryland , and the pork of Ohio , and the beef and mutton of New York and Vermont , and the yellow ...
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635. oldal - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent, And many an error by the same example Will rush into the state; it cannot be.
71. oldal - And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us?
289. oldal - I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
328. oldal - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free!
573. oldal - ... his mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
217. oldal - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
446. oldal - But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love ; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
87. oldal - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
648. oldal - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
280. oldal - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.