Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1855 - Sermons, American |
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... side of " law and order , " and do not violate the statutes of men for their own advantage . This disobedience to the fu- gitive slave law is one of the strongest guaranties for the observance of any just law . You cannot trust a people ...
... side of " law and order , " and do not violate the statutes of men for their own advantage . This disobedience to the fu- gitive slave law is one of the strongest guaranties for the observance of any just law . You cannot trust a people ...
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... side of me is the Bible which my fathers prayed over , their morning and their evening prayer , for nearly a hundred years . On the other side there hangs the firelock my grandfather fought with in the old French war , which he carried ...
... side of me is the Bible which my fathers prayed over , their morning and their evening prayer , for nearly a hundred years . On the other side there hangs the firelock my grandfather fought with in the old French war , which he carried ...
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... side of the American government , which did the deed : on the people's part it was a great defeat ; your defeat and mine . Out of the iron house of bondage , a man , guilty of no crime but love of liberty , fled to the people of ...
... side of the American government , which did the deed : on the people's part it was a great defeat ; your defeat and mine . Out of the iron house of bondage , a man , guilty of no crime but love of liberty , fled to the people of ...
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... side of prerogative and against the right , seemed ready to pervert the law against Justice . Massa- chusetts felt her liberties in peril , and began the War of Ideas . James Otis , an irregular but brilliant and powerful man from ...
... side of prerogative and against the right , seemed ready to pervert the law against Justice . Massa- chusetts felt her liberties in peril , and began the War of Ideas . James Otis , an irregular but brilliant and powerful man from ...
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... side of liberty . No more of stamps in Boston at that time . In time of danger , it is thought " a good thing to have a man in the house . " Boston had provided herself . There were a good many who did not disgrace the name . Amongst ...
... side of liberty . No more of stamps in Boston at that time . In time of danger , it is thought " a good thing to have a man in the house . " Boston had provided herself . There were a good many who did not disgrace the name . Amongst ...
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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.