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... Duty . By FRANCES POWER COBBE . 18mo , pp . 40 , cloth , ls . ITALICS : BRIEF NOTES ON POLITICS , PEOPLE , AND PLACES IN ITALY in 1864. By FRANCES POWER COBBE . 8vo , cloth , price 12s . 6d . THE CITIES OF THE PAST . By FRANCES POWER ...
... Duty . By FRANCES POWER COBBE . 18mo , pp . 40 , cloth , ls . ITALICS : BRIEF NOTES ON POLITICS , PEOPLE , AND PLACES IN ITALY in 1864. By FRANCES POWER COBBE . 8vo , cloth , price 12s . 6d . THE CITIES OF THE PAST . By FRANCES POWER ...
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... duties which men owe to each other and to society , enforced and performed . Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens . Our fathers came here to en- joy their religion free and unmolested ; and , at the end of two cen ...
... duties which men owe to each other and to society , enforced and performed . Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens . Our fathers came here to en- joy their religion free and unmolested ; and , at the end of two cen ...
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... duty of the present generation to stand between the next and despotism ; " " Whenever the national com- pact is ... duties . He opposed the government scheme of a National * I purposely pass over other political writings and speeches of ...
... duty of the present generation to stand between the next and despotism ; " " Whenever the national com- pact is ... duties . He opposed the government scheme of a National * I purposely pass over other political writings and speeches of ...
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... duties for pro- tection ; only for revenue ; revenue is the constitutional substance ; protection , only the accidental shadow . ‡ In 1816 , Mr Webster removed to Boston . In 1819 , while he was a private citizen , a most important ...
... duties for pro- tection ; only for revenue ; revenue is the constitutional substance ; protection , only the accidental shadow . ‡ In 1816 , Mr Webster removed to Boston . In 1819 , while he was a private citizen , a most important ...
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... duty on imports ; in 1824 he opposed it again , with vigor- ous arguments . His speech at that time is a work of large labour , of some nice research , and still of value . " Like a mighty giant , " says Mr Hayne , " he bore away upon ...
... duty on imports ; in 1824 he opposed it again , with vigor- ous arguments . His speech at that time is a work of large labour , of some nice research , and still of value . " Like a mighty giant , " says Mr Hayne , " he bore away upon ...
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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.