American Prose: Selections, with Critical Introductions by Various WritersGeorge Rice Carpenter Macmillan Company, 1898 - 465 Seiten |
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... strange ideals , but assimilating them thoroughly . Comparative criticism has yet to show how extensive the process of absorption and assimilation has been with us ; but it is plain , even to the superficial observer , that whatever may ...
... strange ideals , but assimilating them thoroughly . Comparative criticism has yet to show how extensive the process of absorption and assimilation has been with us ; but it is plain , even to the superficial observer , that whatever may ...
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... strange sweetness in her mind , and singular purity in her affections ; is most just and conscientious in all her conduct ; and you could not persuade her to do anything wrong or sinful , if you would give her all the world , lest she ...
... strange sweetness in her mind , and singular purity in her affections ; is most just and conscientious in all her conduct ; and you could not persuade her to do anything wrong or sinful , if you would give her all the world , lest she ...
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... strange mathemat- ical paradoxes , about infinitely great and small quantities ; as , that some infinitely great quantities are infinitely greater than some other infinitely great quantities ; and also that some infinitely small ...
... strange mathemat- ical paradoxes , about infinitely great and small quantities ; as , that some infinitely great quantities are infinitely greater than some other infinitely great quantities ; and also that some infinitely small ...
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... strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated . Britain , with an army to enforce her tyranny , has declared that she has a right ( not only to TAX ) but " to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER , " and if ...
... strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated . Britain , with an army to enforce her tyranny , has declared that she has a right ( not only to TAX ) but " to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER , " and if ...
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... strange a pretension : that these were effected at the expence of our own blood and treasure , unassisted by the wealth or strength of Great Britain : that in constituting indeed our several forms of government , we had adopted a common ...
... strange a pretension : that these were effected at the expence of our own blood and treasure , unassisted by the wealth or strength of Great Britain : that in constituting indeed our several forms of government , we had adopted a common ...
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Seite 259 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Seite 34 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Seite 78 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 192 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Seite 20 - They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Therefore they say unto God, "Depart from us ; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. "What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Seite 259 - ... \In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it.
Seite 129 - ... be some one of the neighborhood in need of his assistance, he hastened down to yield it. On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.
Seite 104 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Seite 37 - And again, Three removes are as bad as a fire ; and again, Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee ; and again, If you would have your business done, go ; if not, send. And again — He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Seite 80 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...