Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867Little, Brown,, 1867 - United States |
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... authority and government , so far as it extended , than it is among ourselves at the present day . But how far did it extend ? What were the means which the ancients enjoyed for instructing , con- trolling , and marshalling it to a ...
... authority and government , so far as it extended , than it is among ourselves at the present day . But how far did it extend ? What were the means which the ancients enjoyed for instructing , con- trolling , and marshalling it to a ...
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... authority of Government , or , it may be , of God ; I must deride all peculiar regard for one's native land , in swelling pretensions of love for universal brotherhood , and show myself- " A steady patriot of the world alone , The ...
... authority of Government , or , it may be , of God ; I must deride all peculiar regard for one's native land , in swelling pretensions of love for universal brotherhood , and show myself- " A steady patriot of the world alone , The ...
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... authority . And , if some Juvenal were here to - day to lash the follies and portray the perils of our own land , I doubt if he could point out a more serious and salient source of danger - I do not say danger of its decline and fall ...
... authority . And , if some Juvenal were here to - day to lash the follies and portray the perils of our own land , I doubt if he could point out a more serious and salient source of danger - I do not say danger of its decline and fall ...
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... authority , if a rebellion of the intellect against every thing worthy of being the object of faith , strangely contrasted with the weakest and most credulous enter- tainment of the most worthless superstitious impostures , if a morbid ...
... authority , if a rebellion of the intellect against every thing worthy of being the object of faith , strangely contrasted with the weakest and most credulous enter- tainment of the most worthless superstitious impostures , if a morbid ...
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... authority , and which is essential to all moral or spiritual improvement . But it is a doctrine as applicable to the outer as to the inner man , and as essential to the progress and improvement of nations as of indi- viduals . And this ...
... authority , and which is essential to all moral or spiritual improvement . But it is a doctrine as applicable to the outer as to the inner man , and as essential to the progress and improvement of nations as of indi- viduals . And this ...
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Page 635 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent, And many an error by the same example Will rush into the state; it cannot be.
Page 71 - And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us?
Page 328 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free.
Page 289 - I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Page 573 - ... his mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 217 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 446 - But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love ; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Page 87 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Page 453 - ... on many occasions has caused the blood of those sons of liberty...
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