Mōnon Ou: Or, Well-nigh Reconstructed. A Political Novel

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E. J. Hale & son, 1882 - Всего страниц: 279

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Стр. 101 - We know that -we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality ; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the silent tomb shall have imposed its law on our pert loquacity.
Стр. 101 - In England we have not yet been completely embowelled of our natural entrails : we still feel within us, and we cherish and cultivate, those inbred sentiments which are the faithful guardians, the active monitors of our duty, the true supporters of all liberal and manly morals. We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we may be filled, like stuffed birds in a museum, with chaff and rags and paltry blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man. We preserve the whole of our feelings still...
Стр. 5 - I know many have been taught to think, that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason ; and that all arguments for it are sufficiently answered by railing at rebels and rebellion, and by charging all the present, or future miseries, which we may suffer, on the resistance of our brethren.
Стр. 1 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Стр. 6 - I'm thinkin' of our widders and orfuns North, and of your'n in the South. I kin cry for both. B'leeve me, my young fren' I kin place my old hands tenderly on the fair yung hed of the Virginny maid whose lover was laid low in the battle dust by a fed'ral bullet, and say, as fervently and piously as a vener'ble sinner like me kin say anythin' God be good to you, my poor dear, my poor dear.
Стр. 5 - War suspends the rules of moral obligation, and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated. Civil wars strike deepest of all into the manners of the people. They vitiate their politics ; they corrupt their morals ; they pervert even the natural taste and relish of equity and justice.
Стр. 240 - This is the way I long have sought, And mourned because I found it not; My grief, my burden long has been, Because I could not cease from sin.
Стр. 6 - Southern fren' kindly by the hand, I sed, "Yung man, adoo ! You Southern fellers is probly my brothers, tho' you've occasionally had a cussed queer way of showin' it ! It's over now. Let us all jine in and make a country on this continent that shall giv...
Стр. 70 - ... for his appearance at the next term of the district court to answer to the complaint made against him.
Стр. 41 - Love of God, so pure and changeless ; Blood of Christ, so rich and free ; Grace of God, so strong and boundless, Magnify it all in me, Even me. Pass me not, Thy lost one bringing ; Bind my heart, O Lord, to Thee ; While the streams of life are springing, Blessing others, O bless me, Even me ! MRS.

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