The Life of Charles Sumner: With Choice Specimens of His Eloquence, a Delineation of His Oratorical Character and His Great Speech on KansasDayton and Burdick, 1856 - Всего страниц: 329 |
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... ancient and modern writers , and these have been of eminent service to him while illustrating , defending , and enforcing the grand principles of justice and freedom . As we shall yet have occasion to see , his 16 MEMOIR OF.
... ancient and modern writers , and these have been of eminent service to him while illustrating , defending , and enforcing the grand principles of justice and freedom . As we shall yet have occasion to see , his 16 MEMOIR OF.
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... ancients . The youth of Sumner was a pleasant season of rapid , intellectual development and progression in science and literature ; and the remembrance of youthful associations has been delightful to him ever since , as it must be to ...
... ancients . The youth of Sumner was a pleasant season of rapid , intellectual development and progression in science and literature ; and the remembrance of youthful associations has been delightful to him ever since , as it must be to ...
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... ancient Hall , go forth with comfort and cheer to all who labor in the same cause everywhere throughout the land . Let it help to confirm the wavering , and to reclaim those who have erred from the right path . Especially may it exert a ...
... ancient Hall , go forth with comfort and cheer to all who labor in the same cause everywhere throughout the land . Let it help to confirm the wavering , and to reclaim those who have erred from the right path . Especially may it exert a ...
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... ancient divinities of violence and wrong are retreating to their kindred darkness . The sun of our moral universe is entering a new ecliptic , no longer deformed by those images of animal rage , Cancer , Taurus , Leo , Sagittarius , but ...
... ancient divinities of violence and wrong are retreating to their kindred darkness . The sun of our moral universe is entering a new ecliptic , no longer deformed by those images of animal rage , Cancer , Taurus , Leo , Sagittarius , but ...
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... ancient or modern times - an outrage so inhuman that it utterly shocks the sensibilities of our nature , and one per- petrated , too , in the middle of the nineteenth century , in the Ameri- can capital , and in the land of boasted ...
... ancient or modern times - an outrage so inhuman that it utterly shocks the sensibilities of our nature , and one per- petrated , too , in the middle of the nineteenth century , in the Ameri- can capital , and in the land of boasted ...
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Стр. 157 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it a sordid mind, Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Стр. 264 - The inhabitants of the territories which His Catholic Majesty cedes to the United States, by this treaty, shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States as soon as may be consistent with the principles of the Federal Constitution, and admitted to the enjoyment of all the privileges, rights, and immunities of the citizens of the United States.
Стр. 289 - For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe ' return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. 'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers...
Стр. 113 - New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth...
Стр. 37 - It is a beautiful picture in Grecian story, that there was at least one spot, the small island of Delos, dedicated to the gods, and kept at all times sacred from war, where the citizens of hostile countries met and united in a common worship.
Стр. 170 - The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight—I mean the harlot. Slavery.
Стр. 289 - For humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into history's golden urn. 'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers
Стр. 8 - ... at this day. It is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man...
Стр. 220 - Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, And kennel there, yet there still barked and howled Within unseen.