Jamestown Tributes and ToastsJ.P. Bell Company, printers, 1907 - 196 pages |
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... Ideals Of Modern Civilization . Within these Plantations the deserving persecuted from every land first found religious freedom and liberty of con- science . To this great American trait of toleration we are proud to proclaim our ...
... Ideals Of Modern Civilization . Within these Plantations the deserving persecuted from every land first found religious freedom and liberty of con- science . To this great American trait of toleration we are proud to proclaim our ...
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... ideals , the National Society of Colonial Dames was formed . May the members of this Society always maintain That courtesy which gives no pain ; That heroism which faints not ; That charity which suffereth long and is kind ; emulating ...
... ideals , the National Society of Colonial Dames was formed . May the members of this Society always maintain That courtesy which gives no pain ; That heroism which faints not ; That charity which suffereth long and is kind ; emulating ...
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... their lofty standards and high ideals . In the wine of the olden days let us drink To Thomas Nelson Page ! To Ellen Glasgow ! To Mary Johnston ! JULIA WYATT BULLARD . VIRGINIA'S POET PRINCESS , AMÉLIE OF ALBEMARLE WHILE the world 114.
... their lofty standards and high ideals . In the wine of the olden days let us drink To Thomas Nelson Page ! To Ellen Glasgow ! To Mary Johnston ! JULIA WYATT BULLARD . VIRGINIA'S POET PRINCESS , AMÉLIE OF ALBEMARLE WHILE the world 114.
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... ideals that made our Nation possible . All that Washington did was bound up in our national des- tiny . The battles that he fought were fought for American Liberty , and the victories he won GAVE US OUR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE . His ...
... ideals that made our Nation possible . All that Washington did was bound up in our national des- tiny . The battles that he fought were fought for American Liberty , and the victories he won GAVE US OUR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE . His ...
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... ideal we identify with the Fourth is not as yet a consummation , but is still an aspiration : an aspiration which it will require centuries to turn into an abiding condition . To cherish this ideal , this aspiration , to face these ...
... ideal we identify with the Fourth is not as yet a consummation , but is still an aspiration : an aspiration which it will require centuries to turn into an abiding condition . To cherish this ideal , this aspiration , to face these ...
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Page 50 - Massachusetts. She needs none. There she is: behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history : the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill, and there they will remain forever.
Page 159 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 159 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 50 - Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.
Page 146 - PBEACH to you, then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease, but for the life of strenuous endeavor.
Page 148 - We are resolute in our purpose not to fall into such a pit. This great Republic of ours shall never become the government of a plutocracy, and it shall never become the government of a mob. God willing, it shall remain what our fathers who founded it meant it to be • — a government in which each man stands on his worth as a man, where each is given the largest personal liberty consistent with securing the well-being of the whole, and where, so far as in us lies, we strive continually to secure...
Page 180 - has never seen better soldiers than those who followed Lee; and their leader will undoubtedly rank, without exception, the very greatest of all the great Captains that the English speaking peoples have brought forth...
Page 164 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 19 - Britons, you stay too long ; Quickly aboard bestow you, And with a merry gale, Swell your stretched sail, With vows as strong As the winds that blow you.
Page 126 - Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by Her, boy, as you would stand by your mother, if those devils there had got hold of her to-day...