Hamilton, Lincoln & Other AddressesW. T. Smith & Company, 1896 - 191 pages |
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... sense his way was straightway . If he lacked , it was in conciliation and patience . Precocity is not of itself a virtue ; it may even be a defect ; it is always a peril . It was in spite of his youth , and not because of it , that he ...
... sense his way was straightway . If he lacked , it was in conciliation and patience . Precocity is not of itself a virtue ; it may even be a defect ; it is always a peril . It was in spite of his youth , and not because of it , that he ...
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... sense of nationality which was the inward voice of America's providen- tial calling . Germany and Italy , thro their long and pain- ful gestations , afford us similar instances of the inadequacy of the confederation theory to affirm the ...
... sense of nationality which was the inward voice of America's providen- tial calling . Germany and Italy , thro their long and pain- ful gestations , afford us similar instances of the inadequacy of the confederation theory to affirm the ...
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... sense he was that , but not in the sense of promoting oligarchy . He longed to have a government by the best . Who does not ? [ Cheers . ] If we have made of his electoral college an elaborate cui bono , that may show him to have been ...
... sense he was that , but not in the sense of promoting oligarchy . He longed to have a government by the best . Who does not ? [ Cheers . ] If we have made of his electoral college an elaborate cui bono , that may show him to have been ...
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... sense , what absence of va- poring , what conclusive directness , what sagacious transpa- rency . " Honest Old Abe " -what a thirty - third degree of popular confidence was that ! Which of us does not remember his wish that other ...
... sense , what absence of va- poring , what conclusive directness , what sagacious transpa- rency . " Honest Old Abe " -what a thirty - third degree of popular confidence was that ! Which of us does not remember his wish that other ...
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... sense of inadequacy than mine is as I think how many notable and noble souls have brought their best to this illustrious ren- dezvous . How poor shall be the largest that the best can bring to this great love - feast of our loyalty ...
... sense of inadequacy than mine is as I think how many notable and noble souls have brought their best to this illustrious ren- dezvous . How poor shall be the largest that the best can bring to this great love - feast of our loyalty ...
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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.