A compendium of American literature, arranged by C.D. Cleveland. Stereotyped edCharles Dexter Cleveland 1862 |
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... , not content with that , proclaims from its small cor- ner , with a most conceited air , that its poet is the man of the age . " alienable right to Liberty and the pursuit of happiness . 8 PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION .
... , not content with that , proclaims from its small cor- ner , with a most conceited air , that its poet is the man of the age . " alienable right to Liberty and the pursuit of happiness . 8 PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION .
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Charles Dexter Cleveland. alienable right to Liberty and the pursuit of happiness . " I there- fore believe it to be a great crime to deprive any innocent human being of an " inalienable right ; " and a sin against God of no ordi- nary ...
Charles Dexter Cleveland. alienable right to Liberty and the pursuit of happiness . " I there- fore believe it to be a great crime to deprive any innocent human being of an " inalienable right ; " and a sin against God of no ordi- nary ...
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... Happiness .. 54 Employment Essential to Health ......... 86 The Blessings of Affliction .................. 86 Agriculture ........ 54 War ............. Biographical Sketch ... 87 JOHN ADAMS : Biographical Sketch ... 55 Mrs. Adams's ...
... Happiness .. 54 Employment Essential to Health ......... 86 The Blessings of Affliction .................. 86 Agriculture ........ 54 War ............. Biographical Sketch ... 87 JOHN ADAMS : Biographical Sketch ... 55 Mrs. Adams's ...
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... Happiness ............... 376 377 379 Biographical Sketch . 344 To a Waterfowl 380 England ...... 345 The Conqueror's Grave ... 381 Claims of Literature upon America ...... 346 The Past . 382 The Young American .... 347 The Evening Wind ...
... Happiness ............... 376 377 379 Biographical Sketch . 344 To a Waterfowl 380 England ...... 345 The Conqueror's Grave ... 381 Claims of Literature upon America ...... 346 The Past . 382 The Young American .... 347 The Evening Wind ...
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... Happiness ........ 518 516 516 Biographical Sketch .. 490 Weep not for the Dead .. 490 HORACE BUSHNELL : Biographical Sketch .. 519 MARK HOPKINS : Work and Play ... Biographical Sketch .. 491 Light ........ GEORGE W. BETHUNE : True ...
... Happiness ........ 518 516 516 Biographical Sketch .. 490 Weep not for the Dead .. 490 HORACE BUSHNELL : Biographical Sketch .. 519 MARK HOPKINS : Work and Play ... Biographical Sketch .. 491 Light ........ GEORGE W. BETHUNE : True ...
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Page 379 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again; And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements; To be a brother to the insensible rock, And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon.
Page 270 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last, feeble, and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their...
Page 223 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Page 381 - All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 52 - Though in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless, too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils, to which they may tend.
Page 404 - Each soldier eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky-born glories burn, And, as his springing steps advance, Catch war and vengeance from the glance.
Page 380 - So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure ? All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 76 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 625 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
Page 270 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.