Abraham Lincoln, and Other Addresses in EnglandCentury Company, 1910 - 293 pages |
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... affairs . Then and there , in this regard , public discussion supplied the place which the universal activity of the Press has since monopo- lized , and the public speaker who , by clearness , force , earnestness and wit , could make ...
... affairs . Then and there , in this regard , public discussion supplied the place which the universal activity of the Press has since monopo- lized , and the public speaker who , by clearness , force , earnestness and wit , could make ...
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... affairs of nations , find in . the elevation of this plain man to this extraordinary fortune and to this great duty which he so fitly discharged , a signal vindication of their faith . Perhaps to this Philosophical Institution the ...
... affairs of nations , find in . the elevation of this plain man to this extraordinary fortune and to this great duty which he so fitly discharged , a signal vindication of their faith . Perhaps to this Philosophical Institution the ...
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... affairs , as in the last year of the nineteenth century we have been able , by our new electric vision , to watch every event at the antipodes and observe its effect . The rebel emissaries , sent over to solicit intervention , spared no ...
... affairs , as in the last year of the nineteenth century we have been able , by our new electric vision , to watch every event at the antipodes and observe its effect . The rebel emissaries , sent over to solicit intervention , spared no ...
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... the world's scientists , diplomatists , statesmen , men of letters , and men of affairs ? It was by sheer force of brains , character , severe self - discipline , untiring industry and mother - wit . His predom- inant 49 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
... the world's scientists , diplomatists , statesmen , men of letters , and men of affairs ? It was by sheer force of brains , character , severe self - discipline , untiring industry and mother - wit . His predom- inant 49 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
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... two he was able to withdraw from the active management of his business , and to devote himself to public affairs and to scientific studies in which his soul de- lighted . In the meantime , and always in the way of 54 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
... two he was able to withdraw from the active management of his business , and to devote himself to public affairs and to scientific studies in which his soul de- lighted . In the meantime , and always in the way of 54 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
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Page 233 - That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a
Page 79 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Page 53 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 142 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When...
Page 33 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 42 - 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...
Page 34 - I add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause, as cheerfully to one section as to another.
Page 144 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace 10 To occupy my place.
Page 290 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 151 - It shall be in eternal restless change Self-fed and self-consumed. If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.