Modern Eloquence, Volume 2J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 403
... such little incidents Raleigh diver- sifies his history , and with great passages like his apos- trophe to Death he carries it to its loftiest climaxes . Its eloquent by - passages of one kind and another THE NEW HISTORY 403.
... such little incidents Raleigh diver- sifies his history , and with great passages like his apos- trophe to Death he carries it to its loftiest climaxes . Its eloquent by - passages of one kind and another THE NEW HISTORY 403.
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... death hang upon a hair - trigger , they are in the quick decision and the prompt action . The world looks on and applauds . It is a cock - fight . It is a bull - fight . It is the struggle of the gladiator . It is all of these raised to ...
... death hang upon a hair - trigger , they are in the quick decision and the prompt action . The world looks on and applauds . It is a cock - fight . It is a bull - fight . It is the struggle of the gladiator . It is all of these raised to ...
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... death for the young grub they shall never see . One I would not be hurried by any love of system , by any exaggeration of instincts , to underrate the Book . We all know , that as the human body can be nourished on any food , though it ...
... death for the young grub they shall never see . One I would not be hurried by any love of system , by any exaggeration of instincts , to underrate the Book . We all know , that as the human body can be nourished on any food , though it ...
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... death in the family , another distinguished member of it was gathered to his fathers , a strange and awful procession was formed . The ancestral masks , including that of the newly de- ceased , were fitted upon the servants of the ...
... death in the family , another distinguished member of it was gathered to his fathers , a strange and awful procession was formed . The ancestral masks , including that of the newly de- ceased , were fitted upon the servants of the ...
Page 441
... deaths they were not divided . Happiest at the last , they were permitted almost to choose the hour of their departure ; to die on that day on which those who loved them best could have wished they ADAMS AND JEFFERSON 441.
... deaths they were not divided . Happiest at the last , they were permitted almost to choose the hour of their departure ; to die on that day on which those who loved them best could have wished they ADAMS AND JEFFERSON 441.
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Page 774 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 727 - He's here in double trust ; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed : then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 774 - To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.
Page 504 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights, to illuminate our understandings...
Page 728 - O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife ! Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. Lady M. But in them nature's copy's not eterne. Macb. There's comfort yet ; they are assailable ; Then be thou jocund : ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Page 723 - I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature?
Page 760 - Gul in her bloom? Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 727 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come.
Page 583 - He finds his house in ruins, his farm devastated, his slaves free, his stock killed, his barns empty, his trade destroyed, his money worthless, his social system, feudal in its magnificence, swept away, his people without law or legal status, his comrades slain, and the burdens of others heavy on his shoulders. Crushed by defeat, his very traditions are gone...
Page 732 - For mine own good, All causes shall give way : I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.