Off-hand TakingsDe Witt & Daventport, 1854 - 408 páginas |
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... fire , every face was turned towards him , every tongue was silent , for he was clad to the teeth in armor , had a spear like a weaver's beam , and had been trained to battle . He has great self - pos- session , coolness , adroitness ...
... fire , every face was turned towards him , every tongue was silent , for he was clad to the teeth in armor , had a spear like a weaver's beam , and had been trained to battle . He has great self - pos- session , coolness , adroitness ...
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... fire - flies when the stars are shining . Had he been a Northern man , with a New England educa- tion , he would have been a bolder and braver herald of freedom , and he would have discountenanced those who have betrayed liberty in the ...
... fire - flies when the stars are shining . Had he been a Northern man , with a New England educa- tion , he would have been a bolder and braver herald of freedom , and he would have discountenanced those who have betrayed liberty in the ...
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... fire - office . He imagines that poets and divines give him more credit for sagacity and potency than he deserves , and that if he ever was a genius he is now in his dotage , and , furthermore , that he has not goodness enough to be ...
... fire - office . He imagines that poets and divines give him more credit for sagacity and potency than he deserves , and that if he ever was a genius he is now in his dotage , and , furthermore , that he has not goodness enough to be ...
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... fire - office . He imagines that poets and divines give him more credit for sagacity and potency than he deserves , and that if he ever was a genius he is now in his dotage , and , furthermore , that he has not goodness enough to be ...
... fire - office . He imagines that poets and divines give him more credit for sagacity and potency than he deserves , and that if he ever was a genius he is now in his dotage , and , furthermore , that he has not goodness enough to be ...
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... fire , is but a poor symbol of the precious vitality and curious work- manship of the meanest life that it drags along . An unsteady brain , a deceit of the eye , a slight risk , and the wealth of exist- ence committed to your charge is ...
... fire , is but a poor symbol of the precious vitality and curious work- manship of the meanest life that it drags along . An unsteady brain , a deceit of the eye , a slight risk , and the wealth of exist- ence committed to your charge is ...
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Termos e frases comuns
admiration American ANSON BURLINGAME beautiful Beecher Boston Calhoun cheers church Congress dark death distinguished dresses EDWARD BEECHER eloquence England eyes face fame Faneuil Hall father fire forehead friends genius gentleman glow gold hair hand head hearers heart heaven Hebbe honor Horace Greeley human intellect John labors land lectures liberty light lips literary living look magnificent manner ment mind N. P. Willis nation nature Neal Dow never noble O'Connell orator P. T. BARNUM party pathos person poet poetry political popular preacher present pulpit reader reform RUFUS CHOATE Senate sentiments sermons Seward sketch slave slavery society soul South speak speaker speeches spirit stand statesman street style sublime talent temperance THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER THOMAS HART BENTON thought tion Union United United States Senate voice Webster Wendell Phillips Whig words write York
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Página 19 - While the Union lasts we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us — for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent...
Página 306 - All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Página 18 - It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit.
Página 117 - The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.
Página 307 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not like the...
Página 231 - hold the mirror up to Nature, and show the very age and body of the time its form and pressure.
Página 222 - WAS it the chime of a tiny bell, That came so sweet to my dreaming ear,— Like the silvery tones of a fairy's shell That he winds on the beach, so mellow and clear, When the winds and the waves lie together asleep...
Página 18 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion to see whether with my short sight I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Página 86 - But will the North agree to this? It is for her to answer the question. But, I will say, she cannot refuse if she has half the love of the Union which she professes to have, or without justly exposing herself to the charge that her love of power and aggrandizement is far greater than her love ..of the Union.
Página 14 - I decline her umpirage. I have not sworn to support the constitution according to her construction of its clauses. I have not stipulated, by my oath of office or otherwise, to come under any responsibility, except to the people, and those whom they have appointed to pass upon the question, whether the laws, supported by my votes, conform to the constitution of the country.