A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: Literature of the republic. pt. 3. 1835-1860Edmund Clarence Stedman C. L. Webster, 1888 |
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... look for the British regulars , reported that there were no signs of their approach . A watch was therefore set , and the company dismissed with orders to come together at beat of drum . Some went to their own homes ; some to the tavern ...
... look for the British regulars , reported that there were no signs of their approach . A watch was therefore set , and the company dismissed with orders to come together at beat of drum . Some went to their own homes ; some to the tavern ...
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... look at that work , sir ! That is the grandest achievement of men and devils combined ! There you see the termini of the underground railroad , and of all the stage - lines , and private coaches , and expresses , by whomso- ever fitted ...
... look at that work , sir ! That is the grandest achievement of men and devils combined ! There you see the termini of the underground railroad , and of all the stage - lines , and private coaches , and expresses , by whomso- ever fitted ...
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... look not to the verdict of the pass- ing hour , disturbed as the public mind now is by conflicting interests and passions , but to that period , happily not far distant , when the vast regions over which we are now legislating shall ...
... look not to the verdict of the pass- ing hour , disturbed as the public mind now is by conflicting interests and passions , but to that period , happily not far distant , when the vast regions over which we are now legislating shall ...
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... , if they prove false , may in- volve themselves and their countries in remediless ruin . Properly speaking , we need to look at two points 1835-60 ] 59 THEODORE DWIGHT WOOLSEY . Socialism the Path to a Despotic Government.
... , if they prove false , may in- volve themselves and their countries in remediless ruin . Properly speaking , we need to look at two points 1835-60 ] 59 THEODORE DWIGHT WOOLSEY . Socialism the Path to a Despotic Government.
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Edmund Clarence Stedman. Properly speaking , we need to look at two points - the governments under which the socialists hope to carry out their industrial theory , and the form of state polity which the theory itself seems to render ...
Edmund Clarence Stedman. Properly speaking , we need to look at two points - the governments under which the socialists hope to carry out their industrial theory , and the form of state polity which the theory itself seems to render ...
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Page 482 - The power confided to me, will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property, and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion -no using of force against, or among the people anywhere.
Page 486 - States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States, and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 430 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 480 - 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, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
Page 443 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
Page 430 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 381 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own!
Page 486 - That on the first day of January, in the year of "our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty"three, all persons held as slaves within any State or "designated part of a State, the people whereof shall "then be in rebellion against the United States, shall "be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Page 473 - And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 487 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.