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 8323
... True faith does not covet com- forts ; they who realize that awful day , when they shall see him face to face whose eyes are as a flame of fire , will as little bargain to pray pleasantly now as they will think of doing so then ...
... True faith does not covet com- forts ; they who realize that awful day , when they shall see him face to face whose eyes are as a flame of fire , will as little bargain to pray pleasantly now as they will think of doing so then ...
Page 8324
... true one . And besides those voices , there came to us in that old Oxford time a voice also from this side of the Atlantic , — a clear and pure voice , which for my ear , at any rate , brought a strain as new , and moving , and ...
... true one . And besides those voices , there came to us in that old Oxford time a voice also from this side of the Atlantic , — a clear and pure voice , which for my ear , at any rate , brought a strain as new , and moving , and ...
Page 8329
... true and sound . Now the style of Emerson , like the style of his transcendentalist friends and of the " Dial " so continually , the style of Emerson is capable of falling into a strain like this , which I take from the beginning of his ...
... true and sound . Now the style of Emerson , like the style of his transcendentalist friends and of the " Dial " so continually , the style of Emerson is capable of falling into a strain like this , which I take from the beginning of his ...
Page 8331
... true . What a description is Car- lyle's of the first publisher of " Sartor Resartus , " " to whom the idea of a new edition of Sartor is frightful , or rather ludicrous , unimaginable ; " of this poor Fraser , in whose " wonderful ...
... true . What a description is Car- lyle's of the first publisher of " Sartor Resartus , " " to whom the idea of a new edition of Sartor is frightful , or rather ludicrous , unimaginable ; " of this poor Fraser , in whose " wonderful ...
Page 8335
... true , and judge every kind of literary work by the laws really proper to it . The kind of work attempted in the ' English Traits " and in " Our Old Home " is work which cannot be done perfectly with a bias such as that given by ...
... true , and judge every kind of literary work by the laws really proper to it . The kind of work attempted in the ' English Traits " and in " Our Old Home " is work which cannot be done perfectly with a bias such as that given by ...
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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.