The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy, Poetry, the Drama, Travel, Adventure, Fiction, Etc, Volume 19American Literary Society, 1901 - Anthologies |
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Page 6942
... follows , One fights for every bit he swallows . Come then with me and share On equal terms our princely fare . " " But what with you Has one to do ? " Inquires the wolf . " Light work indeed , " Replies the dog : " you only need To ...
... follows , One fights for every bit he swallows . Come then with me and share On equal terms our princely fare . " " But what with you Has one to do ? " Inquires the wolf . " Light work indeed , " Replies the dog : " you only need To ...
Page 6954
... follows day ? Have not the murmuring winds a voice , a mood ? Is not the leaf a book we cannot read ? The stream that brings us harvest or a flood , Has not it too its screed ? Let us not strive the kindly veils to raise . Till all that ...
... follows day ? Have not the murmuring winds a voice , a mood ? Is not the leaf a book we cannot read ? The stream that brings us harvest or a flood , Has not it too its screed ? Let us not strive the kindly veils to raise . Till all that ...
Page 6981
... follow , and get rid of the distracting torment of end- less , fruitless , barren attention ! I take refuge in the unpre- tending assemblage of honest common - life sounds ; and the purgatory of the enraged musician becomes my paradise ...
... follow , and get rid of the distracting torment of end- less , fruitless , barren attention ! I take refuge in the unpre- tending assemblage of honest common - life sounds ; and the purgatory of the enraged musician becomes my paradise ...
Page 6986
... follow me -Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove , - While yet there was no fear of Jove . I come back to my cage and my restraint the fresher and more healthy for it . I wear my shackles more contentedly for having respired the ...
... follow me -Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove , - While yet there was no fear of Jove . I come back to my cage and my restraint the fresher and more healthy for it . I wear my shackles more contentedly for having respired the ...
Page 7004
... follow the example of so many unbelievers , abjure his faith and regret that he had believed ? Ah ! in that moment when the consoling truth shines in all its glory before his eyes , then he recognizes its value . Death is the last light ...
... follow the example of so many unbelievers , abjure his faith and regret that he had believed ? Ah ! in that moment when the consoling truth shines in all its glory before his eyes , then he recognizes its value . Death is the last light ...
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Page 7192 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 6992 - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days — All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Page 7190 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Page 7188 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States, that by the accession of a Republican Administration, their property, and their peace, and personal security, are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed, and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when...
Page 7190 - At the same time the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 7191 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Page 7189 - Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever— it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
Page 7186 - John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. It was an attempt by white men to get up a revolt among slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate. In fact, it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed.
Page 7190 - I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government...
Page 7189 - That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events, and are glad of any pretext to do it, I will neither affirm nor deny; but if there be such, I need address no word to them.