The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 3Redfield, 1853 |
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... Honor received begets self - respect ; self - respect ambition ; am- bition animates resolution , quickens mental activity , and discerns the advantages which knowledge and virtue bring to their pos- sessor . Arbitrary power procures ...
... Honor received begets self - respect ; self - respect ambition ; am- bition animates resolution , quickens mental activity , and discerns the advantages which knowledge and virtue bring to their pos- sessor . Arbitrary power procures ...
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... honors . He still persisted in the tender of his services ; but the American ministers , now without credit at home or in Europe , without hope from the French court , and desponding over the sad prospects of the cause , pitied the ...
... honors . He still persisted in the tender of his services ; but the American ministers , now without credit at home or in Europe , without hope from the French court , and desponding over the sad prospects of the cause , pitied the ...
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... honor our Washington , our Adamses , our Hancock , our Franklin , our Carroll , our Greene , our Warren , and our Putnam , and we honor them justly . But this , nevertheless , was their own land , not a foreign one ; the cause was their ...
... honor our Washington , our Adamses , our Hancock , our Franklin , our Carroll , our Greene , our Warren , and our Putnam , and we honor them justly . But this , nevertheless , was their own land , not a foreign one ; the cause was their ...
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... honors laid down , or one glance toward the honors gathering before him , taking affec- tionate leave of his companions in arms , and their great chief , and returning to his native land , to resume there the duties he owed as a subject ...
... honors laid down , or one glance toward the honors gathering before him , taking affec- tionate leave of his companions in arms , and their great chief , and returning to his native land , to resume there the duties he owed as a subject ...
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... honor her illustrious dead . She would have decreed him a mausoleum in the Pantheon . But why should his remains have been conveyed to the chill and cheerless vaults , where Rousseau and Voltaire sleep . She would have given him a tomb ...
... honor her illustrious dead . She would have decreed him a mausoleum in the Pantheon . But why should his remains have been conveyed to the chill and cheerless vaults , where Rousseau and Voltaire sleep . She would have given him a tomb ...
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Page 626 - The boundary line established by this article shall be religiously respected by each of the two republics, and no change shall ever be made therein, except by the express and free consent of both nations, lawfully given by the general government of each, in conformity with its own constitution.
Page 198 - Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won.
Page 167 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 94 - While foreign nations less blessed with that freedom which is power than ourselves are advancing with gigantic strides in the career of public improvement, were we to slumber in indolence or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it not be to cast away the bounties of Providence and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority?
Page 626 - Governments, in the name of those nations, do promise to each other that they will endeavor, in the most sincere and earnest manner, to settle the differences so arising, and to preserve the state of peace and friendship in which the two countries are now placing themselves, using, for this end, mutual representations and pacific negotiations.
Page 14 - Sir, if any other come that hath better iron than you he will be master of all this gold.
Page 226 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war Might never reach me more ! My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
Page 141 - Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough, When there is in it but one only man.
Page 53 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 94 - ... our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it not be to cast away the bounties of Providence, and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority ? In the course of the year now drawing to its close, we have beheld under the auspices and at the expense of one State of this Union, a new university unfolding its portals to the sons of science, and holding up the torch of human improvement to eyes that seek the light...