Miscellaneous Writings of George W. Burnap ... Collected and Revised by the Author |
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Page 71
... speak of the means and mate- rials , which are within the reach of all , of intel- lectual culture . And here I place , as the most important requisite , the habit of personal obser vation and reflection . God has given to each one of ...
... speak of the means and mate- rials , which are within the reach of all , of intel- lectual culture . And here I place , as the most important requisite , the habit of personal obser vation and reflection . God has given to each one of ...
Page 73
... speak the English tongue ; and to him who is entering upon the great work of self - improve- ment , the difficulty is not the want of aids and materials , but of choice among their boundless exuberance . The cheapness with which they ...
... speak the English tongue ; and to him who is entering upon the great work of self - improve- ment , the difficulty is not the want of aids and materials , but of choice among their boundless exuberance . The cheapness with which they ...
Page 75
... speak with more discrimina- tion . Poetry is in a measure a divine gift , a sacred office which none but the truly anointed can fill . The profane pretender can not invade it with impunity . But every man thinks that he can write a ...
... speak with more discrimina- tion . Poetry is in a measure a divine gift , a sacred office which none but the truly anointed can fill . The profane pretender can not invade it with impunity . But every man thinks that he can write a ...
Page 95
... speaking , you are not the person to remind us of his discourse . Go , tell your master that we are here by the order of the people , and that nothing shall drive us hence but the bayonet . " From that moment till his death , by the ...
... speaking , you are not the person to remind us of his discourse . Go , tell your master that we are here by the order of the people , and that nothing shall drive us hence but the bayonet . " From that moment till his death , by the ...
Page 103
... them , he undergoes a kind of apotheosis at once , and is privileged to speak whenever he chooses . If he fails , his fate is sealed . Whenever he again attempts to trespass on their patience , he is CALHOUN , CLAY , AND WEBSTER . 103.
... them , he undergoes a kind of apotheosis at once , and is privileged to speak whenever he chooses . If he fails , his fate is sealed . Whenever he again attempts to trespass on their patience , he is CALHOUN , CLAY , AND WEBSTER . 103.
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Page 119 - 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 original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing...
Page 262 - Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken : and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven : and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Page 310 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page 253 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand...
Page 119 - 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!
Page 301 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Page 165 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 255 - And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, And the dust thereof into brimstone, And the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day ; The smoke thereof shall go up for ever: From generation to generation it shall lie waste ; None shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Page 118 - I profess, sir, in my career, hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country.
Page 119 - 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.