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... strong within him the adventurous spirit of his race . He became a surveyor , and in the pursuit of this profession plunged into the wilderness , where he soon grew to be an expert hunter and backwoodsman . Even as a boy the gravity of ...
... strong within him the adventurous spirit of his race . He became a surveyor , and in the pursuit of this profession plunged into the wilderness , where he soon grew to be an expert hunter and backwoodsman . Even as a boy the gravity of ...
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... strong judiciary , and an army . We had a vigorous and well - defined foreign pol- icy ; we had recovered the western posts , which , in the hands of the British , had fettered our march to the west ; and we had proved our power to ...
... strong judiciary , and an army . We had a vigorous and well - defined foreign pol- icy ; we had recovered the western posts , which , in the hands of the British , had fettered our march to the west ; and we had proved our power to ...
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... strong , handsome face . He was remark- ably muscular and powerful . As a boy he was a leader in all outdoor sports . No one could fling the bar further than he , and no one could ride more difficult horses . As a young man he became a ...
... strong , handsome face . He was remark- ably muscular and powerful . As a boy he was a leader in all outdoor sports . No one could fling the bar further than he , and no one could ride more difficult horses . As a young man he became a ...
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... strong man , the usurper , or the savior of society . He was a very silent man . Of no man of equal importance in the world's history have we so few sayings of a personal kind . He was ready enough to talk or to write about the public ...
... strong man , the usurper , or the savior of society . He was a very silent man . Of no man of equal importance in the world's history have we so few sayings of a personal kind . He was ready enough to talk or to write about the public ...
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... strong passions were under the absolute control of an iron will , and they never clouded his judgment or warped his keen sense of justice . But if he was not of a cold nature , still less was he hard or unfeeling . His pity always went ...
... strong passions were under the absolute control of an iron will , and they never clouded his judgment or warped his keen sense of justice . But if he was not of a cold nature , still less was he hard or unfeeling . His pity always went ...
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Page 325 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 164 - THE muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Page 22 - Have the elder races halted? Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas? We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson, Pioneers ! O pioneers...
Page 314 - O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells: Rise up — for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths — for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 325 - ANY DEPARTURE FROM THOSE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES WHICH THE BELIEVERS IN A LIVING GOD ALWAYS ASCRIBE TO HIM. FONDLY DO WE HOPE — FERVENTLY DO WE PRAY — THAT THIS MIGHTY SCOURGE OF WAR MAY SPEEDILY PASS AWAY. YET IF GOD WILLS THAT IT CONTINUE UNTIL ALL THE WEALTH PILED BY THE BONDSMAN'S TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS...
Page 314 - My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is...
Page 94 - Set you down this ; And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.
Page 164 - Their shivered swords are red with rust, Their plumed heads are bowed; Their haughty banner, trailed in dust, Is now their martial shroud. And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. The...
Page 62 - Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear : When, waking to their tents on fire, They grasp their arms in vain, And they who stand to face us Are beat to earth again...
Page 84 - JUSTUM et tenacem propositi virum Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni Mente quatit solida, neque Auster, Dux inquieti turbidus Adriae, 5 Nee fulminantis magna manus Jovis : Si fractus illabatur orbis, * Impavidum ferient ruinae.