Selected Addresses of Charles L. Jewett

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Central Printing Company, 1901 - 131 pages

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Page 101 - NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck, and then a vulture. Till the air is dark with pinions.
Page 95 - Then lust, when it hath conceived, bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Page 32 - LOOK. NOT MOURNFULLY INTO THE PAST : IT COMES NOT BACK AGAIN. WISELY IMPROVE THE PRESENT : IT is THINE. Go FORTH TO MEET THE SHADOWY FUTURE, WITHOUT FEAR, AND WITH A MANLY HEART.
Page 29 - This well may be The Day of Judgment which the world awaits; But be it so or not, I only know My present duty, and my Lord's command To occupy till He come. So at the post Where He hath set me in His providence, I choose, for one, to meet Him face to face, — No faithless servant frightened from my task, But ready when the Lord of the harvest...
Page 51 - We denounce arbitrary interference by Federal authorities in local affairs as a violation of the Constitution of the United States and a crime against free institutions, and we especially object to government by injunction as a new and highly dangerous form of oppression by which Federal 'Judges, in contempt of the laws of the States and rights of citizens, become at once legislators, judges, and executioners...
Page 80 - Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 28 - No life Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.
Page 77 - Moral certainty is described as a state of Impression produced by facts in which a reasonable mind feels a sort of coercion or necessity to act In accordance with It.
Page 31 - Who drives the horses of the sun Shall lord it but a day ; Better the lowly deed were done, And kept the humble way. The rust will find the sword of fame, The dust will hide the crown ; Ay, none shall nail so high his name Time will not tear it down. The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet And left to Heaven the rest.
Page 77 - ... sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt of the defendant's sanity at the time of the commission of...

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