Best Things from Best Authors, Volume 4Jacob W. Shoemaker Penn Publishing Company, 1908 |
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... live or to die , as God should will , within sight of its heaving billows , within sound of its manifold voices . With wan , fevered face tenderly lifted to the cooling breeze , he looked out wistfully upon the ocean's changing wonders ...
... live or to die , as God should will , within sight of its heaving billows , within sound of its manifold voices . With wan , fevered face tenderly lifted to the cooling breeze , he looked out wistfully upon the ocean's changing wonders ...
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... live or die , They'll trouble us no more to - night ! ' The crew obeyed him sullenly . " Has hell such torment as they knew ? Like herded cattle packed they lay , Till morning showed a streak of blue Breaking the sky's thick pall of ...
... live or die , They'll trouble us no more to - night ! ' The crew obeyed him sullenly . " Has hell such torment as they knew ? Like herded cattle packed they lay , Till morning showed a streak of blue Breaking the sky's thick pall of ...
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... live ? one son had forged on his father and fled , And if I believed in a God , I would thank Him , the other is dead , And there was a baby - girl , that had never looked on the light : Happiest she of us all , for she past from the ...
... live ? one son had forged on his father and fled , And if I believed in a God , I would thank Him , the other is dead , And there was a baby - girl , that had never looked on the light : Happiest she of us all , for she past from the ...
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... live ! -true Rus- sian , you know , Russian to the backbone ; I say to my wife , give me a Russian every time , for a table comrade . The Baron used to say , " Take mustard , Sellers ; try my mustard — a man can't know what turnips are ...
... live ! -true Rus- sian , you know , Russian to the backbone ; I say to my wife , give me a Russian every time , for a table comrade . The Baron used to say , " Take mustard , Sellers ; try my mustard — a man can't know what turnips are ...
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... lives that you might behold this joyous day . You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour , with your brothers and your neigh- bors , shoulder to shoulder in the strife of your country . Behold how altered ! The same ...
... lives that you might behold this joyous day . You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour , with your brothers and your neigh- bors , shoulder to shoulder in the strife of your country . Behold how altered ! The same ...
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Page 110 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Page 110 - When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder ; Then did he see it, and declare it ; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 100 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Page 99 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity : so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 99 - Therewith bless we God, even the Father ; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Page 124 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 80 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : And the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Page 87 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time when this declaration shall be made good. We may die; die colonists ; die slaves ; die, it may be, ignominiously, and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while...
Page 87 - Publish it from the pulpit; religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it, or fall with it, Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support "Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see,...
Page 55 - And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.