Hamilton, Lincoln & Other AddressesW. T. Smith & Company, 1896 - 191 pages |
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... seen . Never was funeral panegyric so eloquent as the silent look of sympathy which strangers exchanged when they met on that day . Their common manhood had lost a kinsman . ” That day is one of the strange indelible memories of my ...
... seen . Never was funeral panegyric so eloquent as the silent look of sympathy which strangers exchanged when they met on that day . Their common manhood had lost a kinsman . ” That day is one of the strange indelible memories of my ...
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... seen whether their successors shall on the whole excel them . The appliances and associations , the apparatus and the teachers who are using the old disciplinary methods , are now as in the past bent toward making pliant minds aware of ...
... seen whether their successors shall on the whole excel them . The appliances and associations , the apparatus and the teachers who are using the old disciplinary methods , are now as in the past bent toward making pliant minds aware of ...
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... seen too oft , familiar with her face , We first endure , then pity , then - Let me warn all maidens here not to listen to addresses which they intend to reject , and au contra , never to say No ! SERMONIZING INCORRIGIBLE 75 with such ...
... seen too oft , familiar with her face , We first endure , then pity , then - Let me warn all maidens here not to listen to addresses which they intend to reject , and au contra , never to say No ! SERMONIZING INCORRIGIBLE 75 with such ...
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... seen and temporal " is big with premonition of the " unseen and eternal . " Every true mental as every true spiritual tabernacle is " according to the pattern in the mount . " Men vary , according to their interest in ideas , and ...
... seen and temporal " is big with premonition of the " unseen and eternal . " Every true mental as every true spiritual tabernacle is " according to the pattern in the mount . " Men vary , according to their interest in ideas , and ...
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... seen , " begins the eleventh chapter of " Hebrews , " ) is the " witness bearer " of the supremacy in this universe of the idea . Faith is second - sight . It sees the invisible . " By faith we know the world to have been framed by the ...
... seen , " begins the eleventh chapter of " Hebrews , " ) is the " witness bearer " of the supremacy in this universe of the idea . Faith is second - sight . It sees the invisible . " By faith we know the world to have been framed by the ...
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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.