Address Delivered Before the Harvard Musical Association in the Chapel of the University at Cambridge, August 24, 1842 |
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... standing upon the sands , be- holds the ocean stretching before it without visible shore , yet who would fain enclasp it within the circle of his arms . So nearly impossible does it seem to comprehend within the reach of language , the ...
... standing upon the sands , be- holds the ocean stretching before it without visible shore , yet who would fain enclasp it within the circle of his arms . So nearly impossible does it seem to comprehend within the reach of language , the ...
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... stand like watch - towers , burning wearilessly , and with the proud assurance that only by being true to ourselves , we may conquer the world and time . To the musical composer , all of beauty becomes melodi- ous air . His soul is but ...
... stand like watch - towers , burning wearilessly , and with the proud assurance that only by being true to ourselves , we may conquer the world and time . To the musical composer , all of beauty becomes melodi- ous air . His soul is but ...
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... stand amid the wreck of a ruined people , their lingering grace and their sole redemption . Thus will it be with the works of those great composers , which , though suggested by occasion , were yet planted in the depth of a great ...
... stand amid the wreck of a ruined people , their lingering grace and their sole redemption . Thus will it be with the works of those great composers , which , though suggested by occasion , were yet planted in the depth of a great ...
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... stand free and naked , like the angel Michael , to dazzle with his splendor the eyes of the low , and to plunge the vengeful sword of purification into the grovelling heart of his age . Let him ask no favor , but come stern - eyed and ...
... stand free and naked , like the angel Michael , to dazzle with his splendor the eyes of the low , and to plunge the vengeful sword of purification into the grovelling heart of his age . Let him ask no favor , but come stern - eyed and ...
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... standing alone in their truth , shall make the whole world bend to them . It is not to him , who , truckling with the thoughts that come , makes life a bargain , that the spirit of art shall descend . Love and faith , and a hope that ...
... standing alone in their truth , shall make the whole world bend to them . It is not to him , who , truckling with the thoughts that come , makes life a bargain , that the spirit of art shall descend . Love and faith , and a hope that ...
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Page 18 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style...
Page 21 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 15 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 13 - ... both. This division of power, it is true, is in a great measure unknown in Europe. It is the peculiar system of America ; and, though new and singular, it is not incomprehensible. The State constitutions are established by the people of the States. This Constitution is established by the people of all the States. How, then, can a State secede ? How can a State undo what the whole people have done ? How can she absolve her citizens from their obedience to the laws of the United States ? How can...
Page 11 - However gross a heresy it may be to maintain that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that compact, the doctrine itself has had respectable advocates. The possibility of a question of this nature proves the necessity of laying the foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE.
Page 4 - ... I trust it will be understood to be said with no design to excite feeling — a war to propagate wrongs in the Territories thus acquired from Mexico. It would be a war in which we should have no sympathies, no good wishes ; in which all mankind would be against us...
Page 45 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery—subordination to the superior race —is his natural and normal condition.
Page 9 - Of life, at that sweet time when winds are wooing All vital things that wake to bring News of birds and blossoming, — Sudden, thy shadow fell on me; I shrieked, and clasped my hands in ecstasy! VI I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine — have I not kept the vow?
Page 8 - I lay this down as the law of nations. I say that the military authority takes for the time the place of all municipal institutions, and slavery among the rest ; and that, under that state of things, so far from its being true that the States where slavery exists have the exclusive management of the subject, not only the President of the United States but the commander of the army has power to order the universal emancipation of the slaves.
Page 14 - Secession, as a revolutionary right, is intelligible ; as a right to be proclaimed in the midst of civil commotions, and asserted at the head of armies, I can understand it. But as a practical right, existing under the constitution, and in conformity with its provisions, it seems to me...