American Prose: Selections, with Critical Introductions by Various WritersGeorge Rice Carpenter Macmillan Company, 1898 - 465 páginas |
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... Battle Unnamed remains the Bravest Soldier Entering a Long Farm - Lane . CHARLES ELIOT NORTON 358 363 365 380 GEORGE SANTAYANA 383 389 390 393 395 397 398 INTRODUCTION SCARCELY a year goes by without some contribution of CONTENTS ix.
... Battle Unnamed remains the Bravest Soldier Entering a Long Farm - Lane . CHARLES ELIOT NORTON 358 363 365 380 GEORGE SANTAYANA 383 389 390 393 395 397 398 INTRODUCTION SCARCELY a year goes by without some contribution of CONTENTS ix.
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... soldiers in his opposing the kingdom of God . [ From sermon three : Men Naturally God's Enemies . Works , vol . iv , pp . 37-40 . ] THE LEGACY OF CHRIST This legacy of Christ to his true disciples is very diverse from all that the men ...
... soldiers in his opposing the kingdom of God . [ From sermon three : Men Naturally God's Enemies . Works , vol . iv , pp . 37-40 . ] THE LEGACY OF CHRIST This legacy of Christ to his true disciples is very diverse from all that the men ...
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... soldiers , or such documents as his address to the governors of all the states on the occasion of his laying down his command , or the rough draft of his Farewell Address , without feeling emotions of the most elevated kind . It is true ...
... soldiers , or such documents as his address to the governors of all the states on the occasion of his laying down his command , or the rough draft of his Farewell Address , without feeling emotions of the most elevated kind . It is true ...
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... soldier of his stipend , and the public creditor of his due ? And were it possible , that such a flagrant instance of injustice could ever happen , would it not excite the general indignation , and tend to bring down upon the authors of ...
... soldier of his stipend , and the public creditor of his due ? And were it possible , that such a flagrant instance of injustice could ever happen , would it not excite the general indignation , and tend to bring down upon the authors of ...
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... soldiers , it is sufficient that the uniform experience of every nation of the world , combined with our own , proves the utility and propriety of the discrimination . Rewards , in proportion to the aids the public derives from them ...
... soldiers , it is sufficient that the uniform experience of every nation of the world , combined with our own , proves the utility and propriety of the discrimination . Rewards , in proportion to the aids the public derives from them ...
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Página 259 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 34 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 78 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 192 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Página 20 - They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Therefore they say unto God, "Depart from us ; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. "What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Página 259 - ... \In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 129 - ... be some one of the neighborhood in need of his assistance, he hastened down to yield it. On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.
Página 104 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Página 37 - And again, Three removes are as bad as a fire ; and again, Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee ; and again, If you would have your business done, go ; if not, send. And again — He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Página 80 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...