A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: Literature of the republic. pt. 3. 1835-1860Edmund Clarence Stedman C. L. Webster, 1888 |
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... moral power , rules even the sword , and escapes unharmed from the field of car- nage ; giving to battles all that they can have of lustre , and to warriors their only glory ; surviving martyrdoms , and safe amid the wreck of states ...
... moral power , rules even the sword , and escapes unharmed from the field of car- nage ; giving to battles all that they can have of lustre , and to warriors their only glory ; surviving martyrdoms , and safe amid the wreck of states ...
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... morality been constantly tending to subdue the supremacy of brute force , to refine passion , to enrich litera- ture with the varied forms of pure thought and delicate feeling ! How has social life been improved , and every variety of ...
... morality been constantly tending to subdue the supremacy of brute force , to refine passion , to enrich litera- ture with the varied forms of pure thought and delicate feeling ! How has social life been improved , and every variety of ...
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... morals , he identified himself with the cause which he venerated . The crown was to him the emblem of all rightful power . He had that worst quality of evil , that he , as it were , adored himself ; and regarded opposition to his ...
... morals , he identified himself with the cause which he venerated . The crown was to him the emblem of all rightful power . He had that worst quality of evil , that he , as it were , adored himself ; and regarded opposition to his ...
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... morality was never suffered to restrain the passion for conquest . Austria preyed upon Italy until Alfieri could only say , in his despair , that despotic power had left him no country to serve ; nor did the invader permit the thought ...
... morality was never suffered to restrain the passion for conquest . Austria preyed upon Italy until Alfieri could only say , in his despair , that despotic power had left him no country to serve ; nor did the invader permit the thought ...
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... morals than the men of any former republic . By calm meditation . and friendly councils they had prepared a constitution which , in the union of freedom with strength and order , excelled every one known before ; and which secured ...
... morals than the men of any former republic . By calm meditation . and friendly councils they had prepared a constitution which , in the union of freedom with strength and order , excelled every one known before ; and which secured ...
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Página 482 - The power confided to me, will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property, and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion -no using of force against, or among the people anywhere.
Página 486 - States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States, and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Página 430 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Página 480 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
Página 443 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
Página 430 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Página 381 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own!
Página 486 - That on the first day of January, in the year of "our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty"three, all persons held as slaves within any State or "designated part of a State, the people whereof shall "then be in rebellion against the United States, shall "be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Página 473 - And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea...
Página 487 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.