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... living and the dead . Written in the turmoil of great excitement at Washington , while I was in a high official position , and in Philadelphia after I had voluntarily resigned all office , and in a foreign country when I was acting as ...
... living and the dead . Written in the turmoil of great excitement at Washington , while I was in a high official position , and in Philadelphia after I had voluntarily resigned all office , and in a foreign country when I was acting as ...
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... living ; " what Jared Sparks , his successor in the presidency of Harvard College , said of him in the North American Review for April , 1825 : " Professor Everett's recapitulatory remarks and closing reflections are uttered in a style ...
... living ; " what Jared Sparks , his successor in the presidency of Harvard College , said of him in the North American Review for April , 1825 : " Professor Everett's recapitulatory remarks and closing reflections are uttered in a style ...
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... The procession and crowd were im- mense , and included men of all parties and conditions . It was a cold and gloomy day , in sympathy , perhaps , with the mourn- ful occasion , and with the hearts of the living EDWARD EVERETT . 17.
... The procession and crowd were im- mense , and included men of all parties and conditions . It was a cold and gloomy day , in sympathy , perhaps , with the mourn- ful occasion , and with the hearts of the living EDWARD EVERETT . 17.
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John Wien Forney. ful occasion , and with the hearts of the living mass throbbing for the thousands of heroes who slept beneath the sod . On all sides stretched the battle - field ; and from Cemetery Hill the eloquent words of Everett ...
John Wien Forney. ful occasion , and with the hearts of the living mass throbbing for the thousands of heroes who slept beneath the sod . On all sides stretched the battle - field ; and from Cemetery Hill the eloquent words of Everett ...
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... living and dead , who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract . The world will little note , nor long remember , what we say here , but it can never forget what they did here . It is for us , the living ...
... living and dead , who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract . The world will little note , nor long remember , what we say here , but it can never forget what they did here . It is for us , the living ...
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Page 128 - When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Page 21 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 162 - When I remember all The friends so linked together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Page 135 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 175 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Page 317 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 381 - I KNEW, by the smoke that so gracefully curled Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, And I said, " If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here...
Page 213 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 350 - ... to vary the name; for I feared lest it should be looked on as a vanity in me, and not as a respect in the King, as it truly was, to my father, whom he often mentions with praise.