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... houses ; seizes papers ; imprisons men by the score , -by the hundred , by the thousand , —without any warrant whatever , sometimes without any written au- thority at all , or anything beyond the word of a police- man . " " After the ...
... houses ; seizes papers ; imprisons men by the score , -by the hundred , by the thousand , —without any warrant whatever , sometimes without any written au- thority at all , or anything beyond the word of a police- man . " " After the ...
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... house belonging to one of the counties of Massachu- setts , which was , for the time , converted into a jail for his detention , contrary to the law of the State . Officers act- ing under the laws of Massachusetts , and subject to its ...
... house belonging to one of the counties of Massachu- setts , which was , for the time , converted into a jail for his detention , contrary to the law of the State . Officers act- ing under the laws of Massachusetts , and subject to its ...
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... house was surrounded by chains for several days , and guarded by mercenaries of the city , hired for the purpose , and armed with bludgeons . I counted forty- four of these men on guard at the same time . They mo- lested and turned back ...
... house was surrounded by chains for several days , and guarded by mercenaries of the city , hired for the purpose , and armed with bludgeons . I counted forty- four of these men on guard at the same time . They mo- lested and turned back ...
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... house with applause and the clap- ping of hands . The leading citizens of Boston rejoiced at the transac- tion and its result . Some of them publicly mocked at all efforts made in behalf of the unfortunate man who had been kidnapped ...
... house with applause and the clap- ping of hands . The leading citizens of Boston rejoiced at the transac- tion and its result . Some of them publicly mocked at all efforts made in behalf of the unfortunate man who had been kidnapped ...
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... house in the street darkens the grocer's window opposite , and he must strike his light sooner than before . The inferior great man does not un- derstand the man of superior modes of eminence . Sul- lenly the full moon at morning pales ...
... house in the street darkens the grocer's window opposite , and he must strike his light sooner than before . The inferior great man does not un- derstand the man of superior modes of eminence . Sul- lenly the full moon at morning pales ...
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Page 106 - No farther 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 231 - There is what I call the American idea. . . . This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people...
Page 99 - 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 69 - 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 146 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Page 263 - Give to the winds thy fears ; Hope, and be undismayed; God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears, God shall lift up thy head. Through waves and clouds and storms He gently clears thy way; Wait thou His time, so shall this night Soon end in joyous day.
Page 341 - ... the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation ; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb : and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Page 146 - Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam Mendeli's marbles glare; Art, Glory, Freedom fail, but Nature still is fair.
Page 81 - 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 35 - Let our conceptions be enlarged to the circle of our duties. Let us extend our ideas over the whole of the vast field in which we are called to act. Let our object be, OUR COUNTRY, OUR WHOLE COUNTRY, AND NOTHING BUT OUR COUNTRY. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of Wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever ! THE COMPLETION OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT.