A Memoir of S.S. Prentiss, Volume 2C. Scribner's sons, 1855 |
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... beautiful , but in many instances . lacking that depth of thought for which Mr. Prentiss was so remarkable . To me it seemed , when I read it , more like his conversation when he was warmed up by social intercourse , than like a speech ...
... beautiful , but in many instances . lacking that depth of thought for which Mr. Prentiss was so remarkable . To me it seemed , when I read it , more like his conversation when he was warmed up by social intercourse , than like a speech ...
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... beautiful speeches on the Navy - its character and utility - I ever heard . He could not have had five minutes for premeditation ; and then he was fresh from the excitement of another subject , which had foreboded personal violence ...
... beautiful speeches on the Navy - its character and utility - I ever heard . He could not have had five minutes for premeditation ; and then he was fresh from the excitement of another subject , which had foreboded personal violence ...
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... beautiful Ohio I have said Fellow - Citizens - here I say Fellow- Citizens — and a thousand miles beyond this , North , thanks be to God ! I can still say , Fellow - Citizens ! " Thus , in a single sentence , he saluted his audience ...
... beautiful Ohio I have said Fellow - Citizens - here I say Fellow- Citizens — and a thousand miles beyond this , North , thanks be to God ! I can still say , Fellow - Citizens ! " Thus , in a single sentence , he saluted his audience ...
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... beautiful . He almost adored his mother . All his knowledge of the Bible , especially , and all the good and grace that was developed in him , he attributed to the teachings at her knee . He was most eloquent when her morale was the ...
... beautiful . He almost adored his mother . All his knowledge of the Bible , especially , and all the good and grace that was developed in him , he attributed to the teachings at her knee . He was most eloquent when her morale was the ...
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... beautiful imagery in which you clothe your own thoughts . I sincerely trust these passages have not escaped your recollection . Mr. Murdaugh , or Judge Wilkinson , can remind you of many . Pray let me have all . In the mere argument to ...
... beautiful imagery in which you clothe your own thoughts . I sincerely trust these passages have not escaped your recollection . Mr. Murdaugh , or Judge Wilkinson , can remind you of many . Pray let me have all . In the mere argument to ...
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Page 562 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath past away a glory from the earth.
Page 502 - 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 502 - 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! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 579 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel „ While the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 170 - Scylla bathing in the sea that parts 660 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore : Nor uglier follow the Night-hag, when call'd In secret riding through the air she comes, Lur'd with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Page 480 - On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
Page 567 - Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow ; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found...
Page 240 - The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every government.
Page 415 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Page 492 - In states there are often some obscure and almost latent causes, things which appear at first view of little moment, on which a very great part of its prosperity or adversity may most essentially depend. The science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing...