Orations, Addresses and Club EssaysRand McNally & Company, 1895 - 400 páginas |
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... possible for him to have written the plays - Lasting literary efforts must rest upon a moral basis - Genius on earth is God - given - He did not claim the authorship of the plays in his lifetime The plays were acted the same as ...
... possible for him to have written the plays - Lasting literary efforts must rest upon a moral basis - Genius on earth is God - given - He did not claim the authorship of the plays in his lifetime The plays were acted the same as ...
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... possible achievements unsatisfac- tory - Alexander and Napoleon - Limitations of life - The finite striving after the infinite - Not the gift or attainment reached , but the ways it affects the recipient , which determines its value ...
... possible achievements unsatisfac- tory - Alexander and Napoleon - Limitations of life - The finite striving after the infinite - Not the gift or attainment reached , but the ways it affects the recipient , which determines its value ...
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... possible so many distinguished men - Causes of their downfall - Rome taught the value of centralized power - Christianity and Rome - Charle- magne the Christian emperor - The opening of the east by the cru- saders and knights - The ...
... possible so many distinguished men - Causes of their downfall - Rome taught the value of centralized power - Christianity and Rome - Charle- magne the Christian emperor - The opening of the east by the cru- saders and knights - The ...
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... possible inspiration - Their battles were fought over and their generals and statesmen crowned anew before their youth - Patriotism was constantly stimulated -Resting on the heart of the people it fell to the degraded sentiments of the ...
... possible inspiration - Their battles were fought over and their generals and statesmen crowned anew before their youth - Patriotism was constantly stimulated -Resting on the heart of the people it fell to the degraded sentiments of the ...
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... possible , and that kingly oppression would no longer be endured : and we in our late war , supplementing and reaffirming all they had achieved , established forever the first clause of the Declaration : " That all men are created equal ...
... possible , and that kingly oppression would no longer be endured : and we in our late war , supplementing and reaffirming all they had achieved , established forever the first clause of the Declaration : " That all men are created equal ...
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Página 142 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Página 28 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain.
Página 199 - There is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory— when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption,— barbarism at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
Página 139 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Página 150 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Página 150 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Página 154 - O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
Página 139 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Página 152 - The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Página 154 - ... accord of Hamlet Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof, No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day...