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... philologist that the fathers of the stern Roman and the elegant Greek were our
fathers also , and that the swarthy Brahmin of the Ganges and the fire worshipper
of the land of Zoroaster belong to the same wide - extended family of nations .
... philologist that the fathers of the stern Roman and the elegant Greek were our
fathers also , and that the swarthy Brahmin of the Ganges and the fire worshipper
of the land of Zoroaster belong to the same wide - extended family of nations .
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... life to the Anglo - Saxons . Having been placed by the events of the Conquest
in the position of lords of the land , freed from all apprehension of want and from
the necessity of labor so long as the ascendency of their own race should ...
... life to the Anglo - Saxons . Having been placed by the events of the Conquest
in the position of lords of the land , freed from all apprehension of want and from
the necessity of labor so long as the ascendency of their own race should ...
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We are too much accustomed to speak of our countrymen as a separate people
from those of the mother land . But , however we may be separated from her by
the broad Atlantic , and distinguished by a part of our religious and political ...
We are too much accustomed to speak of our countrymen as a separate people
from those of the mother land . But , however we may be separated from her by
the broad Atlantic , and distinguished by a part of our religious and political ...
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We have no sympathy with that false patriotism that affects to consider it
disgraceful to owe the foundation of our literature and character and political
institutions to the noble land of our fathers . Our national recollections , our great
ideas are a ...
We have no sympathy with that false patriotism that affects to consider it
disgraceful to owe the foundation of our literature and character and political
institutions to the noble land of our fathers . Our national recollections , our great
ideas are a ...
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knights with their clouds of clothyard arrows at Azincourtthey followed Richard of
the lion heart to the land of the Saviour , and formed the mailed bands who
planted the cross of St . George on the towers of Acre and Joppa and Ascalon .
knights with their clouds of clothyard arrows at Azincourtthey followed Richard of
the lion heart to the land of the Saviour , and formed the mailed bands who
planted the cross of St . George on the towers of Acre and Joppa and Ascalon .
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Page 80 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not THEE, marks not the mighty hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres; Works in the secret deep; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 316 - 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 572 - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art, or dictated by force ; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts. From this day, the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank ; the English lose all exclusive influence in the affairs of America.
Page 120 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall : and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 317 - 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 600 - For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
Page 28 - Kemble.— The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth till the period of the Norman Conquest.
Page 113 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it...
Page 111 - Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 121 - Remember the former things of old: For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times the things that are not yet done, Saying, My counsel shall stand, And I will do all my pleasure...