Moncure D. Conway: Addresses and Reprints, 1850-1907Houghton Mifflin, 1909 - 444 páginas |
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... America . There has seldom , if ever , lived a man who had such affectionate personal friendships , in so many parts of the world , among cultivated men and women of every religion and of every rank . In addition , he was well ...
... America . There has seldom , if ever , lived a man who had such affectionate personal friendships , in so many parts of the world , among cultivated men and women of every religion and of every rank . In addition , he was well ...
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... Americans at the fact , our own brightest star , Emerson , has artfully taught the same inhuman , undignified , and contemptible heresy . It may be , seemingly , poetical enough to talk of savage health and simplicity , etc. , but it is ...
... Americans at the fact , our own brightest star , Emerson , has artfully taught the same inhuman , undignified , and contemptible heresy . It may be , seemingly , poetical enough to talk of savage health and simplicity , etc. , but it is ...
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... America , it is declared , " etc. , etc. There is no public paper containing any sub- limer passage than that on earth . The farthest that any other of the State Constitutions go is to say that the dif- fusion of enlightenment amongst ...
... America , it is declared , " etc. , etc. There is no public paper containing any sub- limer passage than that on earth . The farthest that any other of the State Constitutions go is to say that the dif- fusion of enlightenment amongst ...
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... America is not less in- debted to Skinner , and Buel , and Ruffin . To the latter's shrewd observations upon marl , and other calcareous manures , Eastern Virginia must attribute her prospective regeneration . And , in our own community ...
... America is not less in- debted to Skinner , and Buel , and Ruffin . To the latter's shrewd observations upon marl , and other calcareous manures , Eastern Virginia must attribute her prospective regeneration . And , in our own community ...
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... America as convicts with Slavery's ball and chain tied to their feet ; whilst at home they saw their sacred growths , Religion , Education , Literature , and Social Science , with a worm gnawing at every core . At length this pitiful ...
... America as convicts with Slavery's ball and chain tied to their feet ; whilst at home they saw their sacred growths , Religion , Education , Literature , and Social Science , with a worm gnawing at every core . At length this pitiful ...
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Página 399 - To support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable, for their just administration: for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Página 6 - Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken.
Página 6 - What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under! But compare the health of the two men and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength.
Página 144 - Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them ; 9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Página xii - The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time...
Página 199 - All things are double, one against another. Tit for tat; an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth; blood for blood; measure for measure; love for love. Give, and it shall be given you. He that watereth shall be watered himself. What will you have? quoth God. Pay for it and take it.
Página 195 - Christian saw the picture of a very grave person hang up against the wall; and this was the fashion of it: It had eyes lifted up to heaven, the best of books in his hand, the law of truth was written upon his lips, the world was behind his back ; it stood as if it pleaded with men, and a crown of gold did hang over its head.
Página 110 - Hamlet. Do you see yonder cloud, that's almost in the shape of a camel ? Polonius. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. Hamlet. Methinks, it is like a weasel. Polonius. It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet. Or, like a whale ? Polonius. Very like a whale.
Página 398 - That, therefore, which makes a good Constitution, must keep it, viz., men of wisdom and virtue, qualities that, because they descend not with worldly inheritances, must be carefully propagated by a virtuous education of youth...
Página 24 - Answer.—The same course that is taken in England out of towns; every man according to his ability instructing his children. We have fforty-eight parishes, and our ministers are well paid and by my consent should be better if they would pray oftener and preach less.