Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Volume 20Mayo Williamson Hazeltine |
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Page 8345
... future life above the clouds , in the New Jerusalem , to be won by disliking and rejecting happiness here on earth . And so long as this ideal stands fast , it is very well . But for very many it now stands fast no longer ; for Carlyle ...
... future life above the clouds , in the New Jerusalem , to be won by disliking and rejecting happiness here on earth . And so long as this ideal stands fast , it is very well . But for very many it now stands fast no longer ; for Carlyle ...
Page 8352
... future awaiting it , filled with fire , filled with hope , filled with faith , filled with joy , this term itself , the remnant , is yet Isaiah's term as well as Plato's . The texts are familiar to all Christendom . “ Though thy people ...
... future awaiting it , filled with fire , filled with hope , filled with faith , filled with joy , this term itself , the remnant , is yet Isaiah's term as well as Plato's . The texts are familiar to all Christendom . “ Though thy people ...
Page 8353
... future . And Isaiah was right , as Plato was right . No doubt to most of us , if we had been there to see it , the kingdom of Ephraim or of Judah , the society of Samaria and Jerusalem , would have seemed to contain a great deal else ...
... future . And Isaiah was right , as Plato was right . No doubt to most of us , if we had been there to see it , the kingdom of Ephraim or of Judah , the society of Samaria and Jerusalem , would have seemed to contain a great deal else ...
Page 8355
... future , perhaps shaking the actual state to pieces in doing so , one man will suffice . But to reform the state in order to save it , to preserve it by changing it , a body of workers is needed as well as a leader ; a considerable body ...
... future , perhaps shaking the actual state to pieces in doing so , one man will suffice . But to reform the state in order to save it , to preserve it by changing it , a body of workers is needed as well as a leader ; a considerable body ...
Page 8368
... future , is an infallible test to employ . The saints admonish us to let our thoughts run upon what- soever things are pure , if we would inherit the kingdom of God ; and the divine Plato tells us that we have within us a many - headed ...
... future , is an infallible test to employ . The saints admonish us to let our thoughts run upon what- soever things are pure , if we would inherit the kingdom of God ; and the divine Plato tells us that we have within us a many - headed ...
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Page 8661 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 8573 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
Page 8751 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 8328 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Page 8325 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Page 8746 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
Page 8555 - We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, ' that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed...
Page 8347 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Page 8338 - Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and. if we will tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best.
Page 8422 - On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life, yielding to partial and temporary departures from necessity.