Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Band 23Mayo Williamson Hazeltine P. F. Collier & Son, 1905 - 11114 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abraham Lincoln American army become believe called Canada Canadian century character Christian Church colonies Congress constitutional Continental army duty England English Epictetus faith Father follow foreign France freedom French friends give glory Greek happy Harvard Harvard College heart heaven honor hope human interests Jesuit Jesus Christ John John Adams labor language Latin learned liberal liberty living look Lord means ment mind modern nation National Education League nature never Nova Scotia Orations ourselves party patriotism peace Phædo Phillips Brooks political poor present President Quebec question Republic rich Sam Slick saved seems ships slave power slavery sorrow soul speak spirit stand strong teach tell thee thing thou thought tion to-day trade true truth United University Washington whole wonder words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 9777 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Seite 9923 - They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free ? 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. 35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Seite 10017 - When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man : for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
Seite 9776 - We walk alone in the world. Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables. But a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal power, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us and which we can love.
Seite 9812 - I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger ; and he that believeth in me shall never thirst.
Seite 9777 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship for the most part which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...
Seite 9749 - More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of : in every path He treads down that which doth befriend him When sickness makes him pale and wan. O mighty love ! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him.
Seite 9748 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Seite 9730 - I tell you, (with the world it would obtain little credit,) that my movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit, who is going to the place of his execution ; so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life...
Seite 9777 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another:, he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.