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... hearts , whose victories , often long delayed , are , in their main essentials , as truly heroic as the grandest conquests ever achieved upon the tented field . That Intemperance is our national bane , is the concurrent testimony of the ...
... hearts , whose victories , often long delayed , are , in their main essentials , as truly heroic as the grandest conquests ever achieved upon the tented field . That Intemperance is our national bane , is the concurrent testimony of the ...
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... heart - touching sentence , " I little knew how much I loved him , until I found that I had lost him . " What the nation thinks of the labours of Cobden and Bright has been shown in a variety of ways ; and the spontaneous action which ...
... heart - touching sentence , " I little knew how much I loved him , until I found that I had lost him . " What the nation thinks of the labours of Cobden and Bright has been shown in a variety of ways ; and the spontaneous action which ...
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... heart's core . As a consequence , he was for the time ostracised , and to point the angry jest at Bright , and mercilessly taunt the peace - loving Friend , as a pro- pounder of unpatriotic nostrums , became a pleasure which not a few ...
... heart's core . As a consequence , he was for the time ostracised , and to point the angry jest at Bright , and mercilessly taunt the peace - loving Friend , as a pro- pounder of unpatriotic nostrums , became a pleasure which not a few ...
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... , be she the Queen of a great realm or the wife of one of your labouring men , who can keep alive in her heart a great sorrow for the lost object of her life and her affections , is not at all likely to The Free Trade Orator . 13.
... , be she the Queen of a great realm or the wife of one of your labouring men , who can keep alive in her heart a great sorrow for the lost object of her life and her affections , is not at all likely to The Free Trade Orator . 13.
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... heart the life - lesson which is enshrined in the glowing lines of the poet laureate : — " Self - reverence , self - knowledge , self - control , These three alone lead life to sovereign power , ” - a lesson which no living celebrity ...
... heart the life - lesson which is enshrined in the glowing lines of the poet laureate : — " Self - reverence , self - knowledge , self - control , These three alone lead life to sovereign power , ” - a lesson which no living celebrity ...
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Page 11 - The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
Page 28 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans." About a quarter before nine...
Page 27 - Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue : whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises : that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Page 34 - I'll praise my Maker while I've breath, And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers: My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
Page 223 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 34 - Happy the man whose hopes rely On Israel's God : he made the sky, And earth and seas, with all their train : His truth for ever stands secure ; He saves th' oppressed, he feeds the poor, And none shall find his promise vain.
Page 53 - Washington. Unless the great God who assisted him shall be with and aid me, I must fail ; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me I shall not fail — I shall succeed. Let us all pray that the God of our fathers may not forsake us now. To him I commend you all. Permit me to ask that with equal sincerity and faith you will invoke his wisdom and guidance for me. With these words I must leave you, for how long I know not. Friends, one...
Page 152 - Some time afterward, it was reported to me by the city officers that they had ferreted out the paper and its editor ; that his office was an obscure hole, his only visible auxiliary a negro boy, and his supporters a few very insignificant persons of all colors.
Page 56 - Portsmouth and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid i do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free and that the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...
Page 241 - Death, be not proud though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures...