 I assure you and your mayor that I had hoped on this occasion, and upon all occasions during my life, that I shall do nothing inconsistent with the teachings of these holy and most sacred walls. I have never asked anything that does not breathe from those...  Anecdotes of Public Men - Page 244by John Wien Forney - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Unitarianism - 1869 - 550 pages
...press ? We have had enough of parvanimity : let us pledge ourselves now to a noble magnanimity. Let my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I write or speak one word which shall tend to rekindle old prejudices, revive old issues,... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1869 - 654 pages
...Christian heart to have pity on those who are in danger of eternal perdition! Sooner than that, "let my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth." And yet it is surely true, with whatever qualifications, that with equal saintliuess the... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...be appointed commander of the forces raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty, may " my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth," if I hesitate or waver in the support I give him. The war, then, must go on. We must fight... | |
 | 1870 - 616 pages
...Press ? We have had enough of parvanimity — let us pledge ourselves now to a noble magnanimity. Let my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I write or speak one word which shall tend to rekindle old prej udices, revive old issues,... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1870 - 602 pages
...Christian heart to have pity on those who are in danger of eternal perdition ! Sooner than that " let my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth." And yet it is surely true, with whatever qualifications, that with equal saintliness the... | |
 | 1870 - 936 pages
...Press ? We have had enough of parvanimity — let us pledge ourselves now to a noble magnanimity. Let my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I write or speak one word which shall tend to rekindle old prejudices, revive old issues,... | |
 | 1873 - 272 pages
...and for much of whatever 1 have received of intellectual culture ; and if I ever forget her, ' let my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my month !' '' Could he witness what it has since done, and what it is; and look over the long list... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - African Americans - 1874 - 24 pages
...followed his eloquent battle-piece : Among my dead comrades there I awore to myself a solemn oath, "May my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I ever fail to defend the rights of these шen who have given their blood for me and niy... | |
 | Gardiner Spring Plumley - Presbyterian Church - 1874 - 838 pages
...Press ? We have had enough of parvanimity — let us pledge ourselves now to a noble magnanimity. Let my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I write or si>eak one word which shall tend to rekindle old prejudices, revive old issues,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1875 - 846 pages
...tho future of my country to them — among my dead comrades there I ^wore to myself a solemn oath, ' May my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I ever fail to defend the rights of these men who have given their blood for me and my... | |
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