Modern Classics ...Porter & Coates, 1865 - 479 Seiten |
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Seite 111 - If any man can show just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.
Seite 470 - Pray, what has become of Texas? After the Mexicans got their independence, I thought that province of Texas would come forward very fast. It is really one of the finest regions on earth; it is the Italy of this continent. But I have not seen or heard a word of Texas for near twenty years." There were two Texan officers at the table. The reason he had never heard of Texas was that Texas and her affairs had been painfully cut out of his newspapers since Austin began his settlements; so that, while...
Seite 457 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Seite 224 - This is the house of God ; this is the gate of heaven." And he also went forth, whither Mazurier had gone. Then beside the bed of the poor wool-comber, women like angels ministered, binding up his wounds, and soothing him with voices soft as ever spoke to man.
Seite 166 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee: Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see...
Seite 457 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Seite 471 - ... less social, perhaps, with new men whom he did not know, but more anxious, apparently, than ever to serve and befriend and teach the boys, some of whom fairly seemed to worship him. And now it seems the dear old fellow is dead. He has found a home at last, and a country. Since writing this, and while considering whether or no I would print it, as a warning to the young Nolans and Vallandighams and Tatnalls of to-day of what it is to throw away a country, I have received from Danforth, who is...
Seite 473 - I will tell you everything you ask about. Only, where shall I begin?' " O the blessed smile that crept over his white face ! and he pressed my hand and said, ' God bless you ! ' ' Tell me their names,' he said, and he pointed to the stars on the flag. ' The last I know is Ohio. My father lived in Kentucky. But I have guessed Michigan and Indiana and Mississippi, — that was where Fort Adams is, — they make twenty. But where are your other "I WILL TELL YOU EVEU\-VV\WG XO\SK^Y. K\V5>M-\ I fourteen?...
Seite 2 - They were the duties, in a word, which one performs as member of one or another social class or subdivision, wholly distinct from what one does as A. by himself A. What invisible power put these functions on me, it would be very hard to tell. But such power there was and is. And I had not been at work a year before I found I was living two lives, one real and one merely functional — for two sets of people, one my parish, whom I loved, and the other a vague public, for whom I did not care two straws....