Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1855 - Sermons, American |
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Page vi
... liberty , dearer than life to them , is in continual peril . Any day , or night , by some miscreant , with no opportunity for defence , they may be sworn off into eternal bondage before some willing member of that family of kidnapping ...
... liberty , dearer than life to them , is in continual peril . Any day , or night , by some miscreant , with no opportunity for defence , they may be sworn off into eternal bondage before some willing member of that family of kidnapping ...
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... liberty have so far prevailed , that within a few years , under federal enactments , Slavery has been spread over a once free territory more than twice as large as the original colonies at the Revolution ; and in the " Free States ...
... liberty have so far prevailed , that within a few years , under federal enactments , Slavery has been spread over a once free territory more than twice as large as the original colonies at the Revolution ; and in the " Free States ...
Page vi
... liberty , dearer than life to them , is in continual peril . Any day , or night , by some miscreant , with no opportunity for defence , they may be sworn off into eternal bondage before some willing member of that family of kidnapping ...
... liberty , dearer than life to them , is in continual peril . Any day , or night , by some miscreant , with no opportunity for defence , they may be sworn off into eternal bondage before some willing member of that family of kidnapping ...
Page vii
... liberty is safe ; - nay , the nation itself is brought into imminent peril , into worse dangers than War ever thundered upon our fathers ' honored heads . In the last five years , it has often seemed as if our Republican Ship must ...
... liberty is safe ; - nay , the nation itself is brought into imminent peril , into worse dangers than War ever thundered upon our fathers ' honored heads . In the last five years , it has often seemed as if our Republican Ship must ...
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... Liberty ; and Liberty without Law . Law without Liberty was only despotism ; Liberty without Law only license . Law without Liberty was the better of the two . If we began by disobeying any one law , we should come to violating all laws ...
... Liberty ; and Liberty without Law . Law without Liberty was only despotism ; Liberty without Law only license . Law without Liberty was the better of the two . If we began by disobeying any one law , we should come to violating all laws ...
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Page 420 - O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.
Page 292 - No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode — There they alike in trembling hope repose — The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 37 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 280 - Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From hope and heaven! Let not the land once proud of him Insult him now, Nor brand with deeper shame his dim, Dishonored brow.
Page 230 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime.
Page 420 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing...
Page 250 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 292 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies : But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 249 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 283 - But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.