Southern Student's Hand-book of Selections for Reading and Oratory

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A.S. Barnes & Company, 1879 - 407 頁
 

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第 267 頁 - baseness wafts perfumes to pride— No! men, high-minded men, »*****-::•#* Men who their duties know, But know their rights; and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain— These constitute a State." Mr. Speaker, I do not propose to enter further into this inquiry than to point to the records geography herself unfolds
第 118 頁 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on the dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
第 282 頁 - All hail! The conquerors of the soul are coming! " Be ye lifted up, O ye gates! And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in! the King of Glory shall come in!!" THERE IS NO CONQUEROR BUT GOD.
第 267 頁 - battlements or labor'd mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd; Not bays and broad-arm'd ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Nor starr'd and spangled courts, Where
第 254 頁 - human vision; it has multiplied the power of the human muscles; it has accelerated motion; it has annihilated distance; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, all despatch of business; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the
第 161 頁 - A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
第 380 頁 - did not write! I sometimes fancy that were I king Of the princely Knights of the golden ring,— With the song of the minstrel in mine ear, And the tender legend that trembles here,— I'd give the best on his bended knee, The whitest soul of my chivalry,
第 138 頁 - Where valor proudly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel's voiceless tone In deathless songs shall tell, When many a vanquished age hath flown, The story how ye fell. Nor wreck, nor change, or winter's blight, Nor time's remorseless doom, Shall dim one ray of holy light That gilds your glorious tomb. THEODORE
第 405 頁 - more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths, such were our Gothic ancestors, and such in our day were the Poles; such will be all masters of slaves who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines itself with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
第 341 頁 - Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated, needs but to be seen, But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." I would not turn upon my heel to choose between masters. I was not born to acknowledge a master from either the North or South. I shall never choose between candidates for that office.

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