 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
 | Chrysostom P. Donahoe - Funeral orations - 1875 - 322 pages
...yielded ! O'Connell said, " Gentlemen, God knows I speak for the saddest people the sun sees ; but may my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if to help Ireland — even Ireland — I forget the negro one single hour." " From that day,"... | |
 | Gardiner Spring Plumley - Presbyterian Church - 1875 - 834 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,... | |
 | Dwight Lyman Moody - Evangelistic sermons - 1875 - 162 pages
...reporters' table, take up a pen and put your name down to such an excuse ? You would say, '• Let my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I sign that." I doubt if there is one here who would sign it. Will you then pay no attention... | |
 | Charles Evans - Quakers - 1876 - 684 pages
...held another meeting with them, which was also so remarkably favored, that Win. Penn says: "Well, let my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, when I shall forget the loving kindness of the Lord, and the sure mercies of our God to us,... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 1880 - 928 pages
...was welcomed by Mayor Henry. In his reply lie said : " You have expressed the wish, in which I join, that it were convenient for me to remain long enough...right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to tJie roof of my month if ever I prove false to those teachings." The next (22d) day, he was escorted... | |
 | Medicine, Eclectic - 1880 - 896 pages
...times. Yet they have always been very much better than other manufactures. If I forget my friends, "let my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth": likewise my enemies. If you ask me which house you shall buy at, I answer — of any that... | |
 | Dwight Lyman Moody - Evangelistic sermons - 1881 - 164 pages
...the reporter's table, take up a pen and put your name down to such an excuse ? You would say, " Let my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I sign that." I doubt if there is one here who would sign it. Will yoi1 then pay no attention... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 640 pages
...the future of my country to them— among my Head comrades there, I swore to myself n solemn oath — 'May my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,' if I ever fail tn defend the rights of those men who have given their blood for me and my... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - Readers - 1882 - 420 pages
...have yielded! O'Connell said, "Gentlemen, God knows I speak for the saddest people the sun sees; but may my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if to help Ireland — even Ireland — I forget the negro one single hour." " From that... | |
 | Thomas Pym Cope - Religion - 1882 - 526 pages
...that day what would become of the glory of all flesh when God shall enter into judgment. Well, let my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth when I shall forget the lovingkindness of the Lord and the sure mercies of our God to us his... | |
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