Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 14Mayo Williamson Hazeltine P. F. Collier, 1902 |
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... character in this or that place ? Is there any doubt at all that the laity would think alike if the clergy did ? And is there any doubt that the clergy would think alike , as far as the formal expression of their faith went , if they ...
... character in this or that place ? Is there any doubt at all that the laity would think alike if the clergy did ? And is there any doubt that the clergy would think alike , as far as the formal expression of their faith went , if they ...
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... character and fidelity of any party are determined , necessarily , not by its pledges , pro- grammes , and platforms , but by the public exigencies , and the temper of the people when they call it into activity . Sub serviency to ...
... character and fidelity of any party are determined , necessarily , not by its pledges , pro- grammes , and platforms , but by the public exigencies , and the temper of the people when they call it into activity . Sub serviency to ...
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... character- istic which , in the mouth of scoffers , constitutes its great and lasting imbecility and reproach . It lies in the fact that it is a party of one idea ; but that idea is ON THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT 5727.
... character- istic which , in the mouth of scoffers , constitutes its great and lasting imbecility and reproach . It lies in the fact that it is a party of one idea ; but that idea is ON THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT 5727.
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... character of the Republican party . Already bearing its part in legislation and in treaties , it feels the necessity of being practical in its care of the national health and life , while it ON THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY 5745.
... character of the Republican party . Already bearing its part in legislation and in treaties , it feels the necessity of being practical in its care of the national health and life , while it ON THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY 5745.
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... character , preponderates against the greater number who have not the courage to divest their families of a property which , however , keeps their consciences unquiet . Northward of the Chesapeake , you may find here and there an ...
... character , preponderates against the greater number who have not the courage to divest their families of a property which , however , keeps their consciences unquiet . Northward of the Chesapeake , you may find here and there an ...
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Page 5928 - Perhaps the time has already come when it ought to be and will be something else; when 'the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.
Page 5934 - The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward; the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead; man hopes; genius creates.
Page 5951 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence.
Page 5933 - Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
Page 5950 - We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame.
Page 5934 - Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair.
Page 5948 - Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin, the milk in the pan, the ballad in the street, the news of the boat, the glance of the eye, the form and the gait of the body; show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking, as always it does lurk, in these suburbs and extremities of nature; let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity...
Page 5935 - There is then creative reading, as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Page 5936 - ... highly serve us when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and by the concentrated fires set the hearts of their youth on flame. Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst...
Page 5682 - One thing have I desired of the LORD, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the LORD, and to visit his temple.