Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 23Charles Dudley Warner International Society, 1896 - Literature |
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Page 9013
... hope That I rightly bear one of my titles : " Reformer of the world and of the law . " Nathan Faith , ' tis a splendid title ; yet before , O Sultan , I may quite confide in thee , Permit me to relate a tale . Saladin Nathan Why not ? I ...
... hope That I rightly bear one of my titles : " Reformer of the world and of the law . " Nathan Faith , ' tis a splendid title ; yet before , O Sultan , I may quite confide in thee , Permit me to relate a tale . Saladin Nathan Why not ? I ...
Page 9065
... hope they will be read of and recounted , so long as the Bible shall be read . But even granting that they will , their influence cannot be what it heretofore has been . Even then they cannot be so universally known nor so vividly felt ...
... hope they will be read of and recounted , so long as the Bible shall be read . But even granting that they will , their influence cannot be what it heretofore has been . Even then they cannot be so universally known nor so vividly felt ...
Page 9068
... hope that we should at some time have a confed- eracy of free States . Again , you say we have made the slavery question more prominent than it formerly was . We deny it . It was not we but you who discarded the old policy of the ...
... hope that we should at some time have a confed- eracy of free States . Again , you say we have made the slavery question more prominent than it formerly was . We deny it . It was not we but you who discarded the old policy of the ...
Page 9073
... hope in the In our present differences , is either party without faith . of being in the right ? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations with his eternal truth and justice be on your side of the North or on yours of the South , that truth and ...
... hope in the In our present differences , is either party without faith . of being in the right ? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations with his eternal truth and justice be on your side of the North or on yours of the South , that truth and ...
Page 9075
... hope for the future , no prediction in regard to it is ventured . -- On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago , all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war . All dreaded it , all sought to avert it . While ...
... hope for the future , no prediction in regard to it is ventured . -- On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago , all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war . All dreaded it , all sought to avert it . While ...
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Page 9070 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 9160 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 9072 - To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
Page 9159 - I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist...
Page 9152 - Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That saved she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's woe.
Page 9164 - Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 9072 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to him?
Page 9148 - Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse; For this I sought thee. "Far in the Northern Land, By the wild Baltic's strand, I, with my childish hand, Tamed the gerfalcon; And, with my skates fast-bound, Skimmed the half-frozen Sound, That the poor whimpering hound Trembled to walk on.
Page 9071 - Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive ; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.
Page 9169 - LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.