Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1835-1851Little, Brown,, 1852 - 747 páginas |
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... Follow this feeble , devoted band , to the spot which they have at length selected for their habitation . See them felling a few trees , sawing and carrying the timber , and building the first New England house , of about twenty feet ...
... Follow this feeble , devoted band , to the spot which they have at length selected for their habitation . See them felling a few trees , sawing and carrying the timber , and building the first New England house , of about twenty feet ...
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... follow them in their eventful flight . They first set- tle at Amsterdam , where they remain for about a year , and are soon joined by the rest of their brethren . But finding that some contentions had arisen in a church which was there ...
... follow them in their eventful flight . They first set- tle at Amsterdam , where they remain for about a year , and are soon joined by the rest of their brethren . But finding that some contentions had arisen in a church which was there ...
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... follow in such footsteps . I need name no more of them , certainly , to warrant me in adding , that no one can fail to feel some touches , also , of a less welcome and less inspiriting emotion than that of pride , as he finds himself ...
... follow in such footsteps . I need name no more of them , certainly , to warrant me in adding , that no one can fail to feel some touches , also , of a less welcome and less inspiriting emotion than that of pride , as he finds himself ...
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... follow the fortunes of other commercial cities , once the renowned of the world , whose merchants were princes and their traffickers the honorable of the earth , but which have now a name and a place only in history . But I have alluded ...
... follow the fortunes of other commercial cities , once the renowned of the world , whose merchants were princes and their traffickers the honorable of the earth , but which have now a name and a place only in history . But I have alluded ...
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... follow the profession of the law , with a safe conscience . God forbid , that while we scoff at the doctrine which would excom- municate commerce from the pale of Christianity , we should embrace the far more fatal doctrine , which ...
... follow the profession of the law , with a safe conscience . God forbid , that while we scoff at the doctrine which would excom- municate commerce from the pale of Christianity , we should embrace the far more fatal doctrine , which ...
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Página 599 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 224 - And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
Página 34 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Página 144 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
Página 84 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Página 87 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Página 347 - The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit shall not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
Página 640 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; tha£ of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Página 217 - But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fixed and resting quality, There is no fellow in the firmament.
Página 155 - Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.