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Page 11
... institutions which seem to me the proudest achievements of mankind in Church and State . But there are other qualities in the nation's character which are mean and selfish ; we have founded other institutions , DANIEL WEBSTER . 11.
... institutions which seem to me the proudest achievements of mankind in Church and State . But there are other qualities in the nation's character which are mean and selfish ; we have founded other institutions , DANIEL WEBSTER . 11.
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... mean and selfish ? Shall America govern herself by the eternal laws , as they are discerned through the conscience of mankind , or by the transient appetite of the hour , the lust for land , for money , for power , or fame ? That is a ...
... mean and selfish ? Shall America govern herself by the eternal laws , as they are discerned through the conscience of mankind , or by the transient appetite of the hour , the lust for land , for money , for power , or fame ? That is a ...
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... mean . In the rudest ages , when the body is man's only tool for work or war , eminent strength of body is the thing ... means for attaining ends desired ; the power to originate ideas , to express them in speech , to organize them into ...
... mean . In the rudest ages , when the body is man's only tool for work or war , eminent strength of body is the thing ... means for attaining ends desired ; the power to originate ideas , to express them in speech , to organize them into ...
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... mean to see greatness of the highest kind . Bulk anybody can see ; bulk of body or mind . The loftiest form of greatness is never popular in its time . Men cannot understand or re- ceive it . Guinea negroes would think a juggler a ...
... mean to see greatness of the highest kind . Bulk anybody can see ; bulk of body or mind . The loftiest form of greatness is never popular in its time . Men cannot understand or re- ceive it . Guinea negroes would think a juggler a ...
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... means of men can devise a method even for keeping stationary the frightful propagation of slavery , other men , members of the same community , sometimes colleagues of the same deliberative assembly , will be com- passing , with all ...
... means of men can devise a method even for keeping stationary the frightful propagation of slavery , other men , members of the same community , sometimes colleagues of the same deliberative assembly , will be com- passing , with all ...
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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.