Hamilton, Lincoln & Other AddressesW. T. Smith & Company, 1896 - 191 pages |
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... present presumption seems to contradict me ) , a modest one . Modest one must be facing such a theme and company - a company to which the details and suggestions of the theme are so familiar and which contains so many speakers of ...
... present presumption seems to contradict me ) , a modest one . Modest one must be facing such a theme and company - a company to which the details and suggestions of the theme are so familiar and which contains so many speakers of ...
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... present great president ! At 17 he began and with no ' prentice hand threw himself upon the issue as a speaker and a pamphleteer . At 19 captain of artillery , maneuvering his stubborn guns with skill at Harlem and White- Plains . At 20 ...
... present great president ! At 17 he began and with no ' prentice hand threw himself upon the issue as a speaker and a pamphleteer . At 19 captain of artillery , maneuvering his stubborn guns with skill at Harlem and White- Plains . At 20 ...
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... present chancellor is one of our college's most honored sons , and one of whose most distinguished members , my friend , Dr. McKelway , will address you tonight ) -Hamilton was chosen as chief sponsor and became the first charter ...
... present chancellor is one of our college's most honored sons , and one of whose most distinguished members , my friend , Dr. McKelway , will address you tonight ) -Hamilton was chosen as chief sponsor and became the first charter ...
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... present Empire State is the reply to the dismal forebodings of those then in it who assailed his work . In the light of events he stands forth as the one great prophet amid a throng of doleful prognosticators . That mighty sum in ...
... present Empire State is the reply to the dismal forebodings of those then in it who assailed his work . In the light of events he stands forth as the one great prophet amid a throng of doleful prognosticators . That mighty sum in ...
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... to find its relations to present fact and obvious tendency , I would avoid the role of either Balaam or Cassan- dra , and seek , tho least , a place among the canonical , if minor , prophets . Until a recent period ( epoch some of you ...
... to find its relations to present fact and obvious tendency , I would avoid the role of either Balaam or Cassan- dra , and seek , tho least , a place among the canonical , if minor , prophets . Until a recent period ( epoch some of you ...
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Page 96 - That, to th' observer, doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee '. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 31 - He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all' are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Page 44 - ... as unknown, and yet well known ; as dying, and behold, we live ; as chastened, and not killed ; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich ; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 121 - THERE is no unbelief; Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod And waits to see it push away the clod, He trusts in God. Whoever says when clouds are in the sky, "Be patient, heart; light breaketh by and by,
Page 90 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 109 - For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing ; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Page 33 - We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers.
Page 126 - Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Page 85 - Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 53 - That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.