The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Autobiographical and miscellaneous pieces |
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... reason , young men , that I have spoken so many times from the pulpit on the great political ques- tions of the day , and on the great political men ; for this reason did I preach and now again publish , this Discourse on one of the ...
... reason , young men , that I have spoken so many times from the pulpit on the great political ques- tions of the day , and on the great political men ; for this reason did I preach and now again publish , this Discourse on one of the ...
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... reason . Power to think is , then , the faculty men value most ; ability to devise means for attaining ends desired ; the power to originate ideas , to express them in speech , to organize them into institutions ; to organize things ...
... reason . Power to think is , then , the faculty men value most ; ability to devise means for attaining ends desired ; the power to originate ideas , to express them in speech , to organize them into institutions ; to organize things ...
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... reason , justice , and religion . They say that women have the most of this affection , and so are most attachable , most swayed by persons , - least by ideas . Woman's mind and conscience , and her soul , they say , are easily crushed ...
... reason , justice , and religion . They say that women have the most of this affection , and so are most attachable , most swayed by persons , - least by ideas . Woman's mind and conscience , and her soul , they say , are easily crushed ...
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... reason so much as for the protection of commerce . " " Commerce has paid the price of independence . " It has been committed to the care of the general government , but " not as a convict to the safe - keeping of a jailor , ' " not for ...
... reason so much as for the protection of commerce . " " Commerce has paid the price of independence . " It has been committed to the care of the general government , but " not as a convict to the safe - keeping of a jailor , ' " not for ...
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... reason that the South , always jealous of the Northern thrifty toil , pro- posed it ? So it was alleged . † Mr Webster declared that Congress has no constitutional right to levy duties for pro- tection ; only for revenue ; revenue is ...
... reason that the South , always jealous of the Northern thrifty toil , pro- posed it ? So it was alleged . † Mr Webster declared that Congress has no constitutional right to levy duties for pro- tection ; only for revenue ; revenue is ...
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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.