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 6913
... Virtue call , and on her heavenly form With fixed eye will gaze , and only Own that for peace and happiness Which she prescribes for me . But , Holier One , Thee , too , who dwell'st afar in higher state Than human virtue - Thee I'll ...
... Virtue call , and on her heavenly form With fixed eye will gaze , and only Own that for peace and happiness Which she prescribes for me . But , Holier One , Thee , too , who dwell'st afar in higher state Than human virtue - Thee I'll ...
Page 6965
... virtues and vices inexplicably intertwisted , and not to be unraveled without hazard , he is good throughout . No part of him is bet- ter or worse than another . He helpeth , as far as his little means extend , all around . He is the ...
... virtues and vices inexplicably intertwisted , and not to be unraveled without hazard , he is good throughout . No part of him is bet- ter or worse than another . He helpeth , as far as his little means extend , all around . He is the ...
Page 6975
... virtue of holding cards of the same mark and color , without reference to the playing of the game , or the individual worth or pretensions of the cards themselves ! She held this to be a solecism ; as pitiful an ambition at cards as ...
... virtue of holding cards of the same mark and color , without reference to the playing of the game , or the individual worth or pretensions of the cards themselves ! She held this to be a solecism ; as pitiful an ambition at cards as ...
Page 6985
... virtue , or which , in fact , was indifferent to neither , where neither properly was called in question , that happy breathing - place from the burthen of a perpetual moral questioning , the sanctuary and quiet Alsatia of hunted ...
... virtue , or which , in fact , was indifferent to neither , where neither properly was called in question , that happy breathing - place from the burthen of a perpetual moral questioning , the sanctuary and quiet Alsatia of hunted ...
Page 6987
... Virtue , or how is she at all concerned about it , whether Sir Simon or Dapperwit steal away Miss Martha , or who is the father of Lord Froth's or Sir Paul Pliant's children . The whole is a passing pageant , where we should sit as ...
... Virtue , or how is she at all concerned about it , whether Sir Simon or Dapperwit steal away Miss Martha , or who is the father of Lord Froth's or Sir Paul Pliant's children . The whole is a passing pageant , where we should sit as ...
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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.