The Vengeance of the Flag, and Other Occasional AddressesFleming H. Revell Company, 1914 - 372 sider |
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... ment , drawn up by Thomas Jefferson , and called the Declaration of Independence . Here was the most extraordinary political code ever fulminated ; but it was not Jefferson's . He but held the pen , the Author was in the clouds . All ...
... ment , drawn up by Thomas Jefferson , and called the Declaration of Independence . Here was the most extraordinary political code ever fulminated ; but it was not Jefferson's . He but held the pen , the Author was in the clouds . All ...
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... ment , he construed the order as a lawyer would con- strue a statute the thing to be done was mandatory , the means of accomplishment purely directory . Other officers would excuse their failure to attempt - the weather was bad , roads ...
... ment , he construed the order as a lawyer would con- strue a statute the thing to be done was mandatory , the means of accomplishment purely directory . Other officers would excuse their failure to attempt - the weather was bad , roads ...
Side 55
... ment ; but it is a vague word , and wonderfully illusive . Whereabouts is " there " ? What do we know of the locus in quo , as the lawyers say ? It may be that , in the words of the gospel hymn , " there " is " a land that is fairer ...
... ment ; but it is a vague word , and wonderfully illusive . Whereabouts is " there " ? What do we know of the locus in quo , as the lawyers say ? It may be that , in the words of the gospel hymn , " there " is " a land that is fairer ...
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... ment and giggled , after the manner of little girls . I knew that he became a publisher in Philadelphia , and brought forth " Poor Richard's Almanac , " a hotch- potch of the wise sayings of all nations which every- body had heard and ...
... ment and giggled , after the manner of little girls . I knew that he became a publisher in Philadelphia , and brought forth " Poor Richard's Almanac , " a hotch- potch of the wise sayings of all nations which every- body had heard and ...
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... ment . But after all it is the symbolized sentiment we honor , rather than the object of it . Here , however , is a monument erected not by an estate but by popular subscription , for the sole purpose of rescuing a name from threatened ...
... ment . But after all it is the symbolized sentiment we honor , rather than the object of it . Here , however , is a monument erected not by an estate but by popular subscription , for the sole purpose of rescuing a name from threatened ...
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Side 227 - The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
Side 91 - A man's heart deviseth his way : but the LORD directeth his steps.
Side 187 - If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.
Side 264 - To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion ; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to...
Side 292 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
Side 200 - New times demand new measures and new men ; The world advances, and in time outgrows The laws that in our father's day were best ; And, doubtless, after us, some purer scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men than we, Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.
Side 290 - That no person or persons whatsoever within this province, or the islands, ports, harbors, creeks, or havens thereunto belonging, professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be any ways troubled, molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof within this province or the islands thereunto belonging nor any way compelled to the belief or exercise of any other religion against his or her consent...
Side 200 - The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change ; Then let it come : I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind ; Nor think I that God's world will fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less.
Side 269 - But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Side 290 - And whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters of religion hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it...