Speeches, Lectures, and LettersLee and Shepard, 1891 - 476 頁 |
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第 iv 頁
... union of the highest gifts of eloquence with lightness of touch , a conversational reality of tone , and language level to the understanding of every hearer . Such mastery of invective also , keen and graceful as a Damascus blade , it ...
... union of the highest gifts of eloquence with lightness of touch , a conversational reality of tone , and language level to the understanding of every hearer . Such mastery of invective also , keen and graceful as a Damascus blade , it ...
第 21 頁
... Union is the Carolinians ' charter of safety , the dread of the Northern bayonet is their real police . Without it the whole South were but the deck of a larger " Creole , " and the physical strength of the bond- man , as on board that ...
... Union is the Carolinians ' charter of safety , the dread of the Northern bayonet is their real police . Without it the whole South were but the deck of a larger " Creole , " and the physical strength of the bond- man , as on board that ...
第 30 頁
... Union Jack ] do not wave , " and yet the Choates of the island do not seem to agree with their Boston relative , that this is his “ appropriate sphere ! " cards ! Mr. Thompson comes here for the benefit of 30 WELCOME TO GEORGE THOMPSON .
... Union Jack ] do not wave , " and yet the Choates of the island do not seem to agree with their Boston relative , that this is his “ appropriate sphere ! " cards ! Mr. Thompson comes here for the benefit of 30 WELCOME TO GEORGE THOMPSON .
第 31 頁
... Union is in danger ! Nothing less , it seems , would have induced Mr. Choate and all the Messrs . Curtises to come forth in its defence . Put that down as one evidence of success . It used to be said that characters which needed defence ...
... Union is in danger ! Nothing less , it seems , would have induced Mr. Choate and all the Messrs . Curtises to come forth in its defence . Put that down as one evidence of success . It used to be said that characters which needed defence ...
第 34 頁
... Union , promises the slave - holder to keep peace on the planta- tion ; and if the slave rises to get his liberty , she will , as Edward Everett once offered , " buckle on her knap- sack " to put him down . It is not for her now to turn ...
... Union , promises the slave - holder to keep peace on the planta- tion ; and if the slave rises to get his liberty , she will , as Edward Everett once offered , " buckle on her knap- sack " to put him down . It is not for her now to turn ...
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第 212 頁 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
第 321 頁 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
第 407 頁 - May my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if ever I prove false to those teachings.
第 92 頁 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
第 11 頁 - Forgive me this my virtue; For in the fatness of these pursy times, Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, Yea, curb* and woo, for leave to do him good.
第 343 頁 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
第 9 頁 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
第 207 頁 - Nor is it at all incredible, that a book, which has been so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind several thousand years before.
第 206 頁 - I charge you before God, and his blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveal any thing to you by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it, as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry ; for I am verily persuaded, I am very confident, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
第 340 頁 - Her haughty Schools Shall blush ; and may not we with sorrow say, A few strong instincts and a few plain rules Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind at this unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought...