Speeches, Correspondence, Etc., of the Late Daniel S. Dickinson of New York: Including: Addresses on Important Public Topics: Speeches in the State and United States Senate, and in Support of the Government During the Rebellion; Correspondence, Private and Political (collected and Arranged by Mrs. Dickinson), Poems (collected and Arranged by Mrs. Mygatt), Etc, Volume 2G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1867 |
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... destroyed in the affec- tions of the American people . Yes , " You may break , you may shatter the vase if you will , But the scent of the roses will hang round it still . " But these anticipations have not been and are not to be ...
... destroyed in the affec- tions of the American people . Yes , " You may break , you may shatter the vase if you will , But the scent of the roses will hang round it still . " But these anticipations have not been and are not to be ...
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... destroy the means of retreat behind them , that they may remain faithful to the end . When the sunlight of the last autumn was supplanted by the premonitions of winter , by drifting clouds , and eddying leaves , and the flight of birds ...
... destroy the means of retreat behind them , that they may remain faithful to the end . When the sunlight of the last autumn was supplanted by the premonitions of winter , by drifting clouds , and eddying leaves , and the flight of birds ...
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... destroy , some struggling to maintain the common beneficent government of all , established by our fathers . This effort to divide the Union and subvert the government , whatever may be the pretence , is , in fact , a dangerous and dar ...
... destroy , some struggling to maintain the common beneficent government of all , established by our fathers . This effort to divide the Union and subvert the government , whatever may be the pretence , is , in fact , a dangerous and dar ...
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... destroy the government , besides being intrinsically atrocious , instead of correcting the alleged grievances , are calculated to aggravate them more than an hundred fold , and , if successful , to close a day of hu- manities , hope and ...
... destroy the government , besides being intrinsically atrocious , instead of correcting the alleged grievances , are calculated to aggravate them more than an hundred fold , and , if successful , to close a day of hu- manities , hope and ...
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... destroy an edifice which stands as the last best hopes of man , because they fear that they may be visited with political oppression ! Those who practise such shallow devices before the world in the latter part of the nineteenth century ...
... destroy an edifice which stands as the last best hopes of man , because they fear that they may be visited with political oppression ! Those who practise such shallow devices before the world in the latter part of the nineteenth century ...
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Page 302 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years ; But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 70 - WOODMAN, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand — Thy axe shall harm it not!
Page 93 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Page 84 - Truth crushed to earth, shall rise again The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Page 638 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Page 155 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap...
Page 38 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Page 3 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 259 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade — A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 123 - There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.