American Literature, 1607-1885: The development of American thoughtG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1886 |
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... Concord and Lexington ; but Warren really fell an " enthusiast " at Bunker Hill . " If we have any respect for things sacred ; any regard to the dearest treasure on earth ; if we have one tender sentiment for posterity ; if we would not ...
... Concord and Lexington ; but Warren really fell an " enthusiast " at Bunker Hill . " If we have any respect for things sacred ; any regard to the dearest treasure on earth ; if we have one tender sentiment for posterity ; if we would not ...
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... Concord and Lexington , or the Boston Tea - Party . The germs of independence lay in the local self- government of the colonies - indeed , in the folk- motes of the Saxons . But after the Revolution had begun , a few men of conspicuous ...
... Concord and Lexington , or the Boston Tea - Party . The germs of independence lay in the local self- government of the colonies - indeed , in the folk- motes of the Saxons . But after the Revolution had begun , a few men of conspicuous ...
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... Concord School of Phil- osophy , has found a ready welcome west of the Atlantic . American students are now little in- clined to follow Edwards in the endeavor to prop up Calvinistic theology by philosophical supports ; but religion has ...
... Concord School of Phil- osophy , has found a ready welcome west of the Atlantic . American students are now little in- clined to follow Edwards in the endeavor to prop up Calvinistic theology by philosophical supports ; but religion has ...
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... Concord with which Emerson's fame was so closely connected . This clerical ancestry , upon which Emerson somewhat prided himself , and upon which all of his biog- raphers dwell fondly , was not a surprising thing . The Emersons were ...
... Concord with which Emerson's fame was so closely connected . This clerical ancestry , upon which Emerson somewhat prided himself , and upon which all of his biog- raphers dwell fondly , was not a surprising thing . The Emersons were ...
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... Concord , where he dwelt until his death . This choice of a residence on Emerson's part was the thing which made Concord a sort of literary Emerson in Mecca ; for the " Concord school " of Amer- Concord . ican writers , of course ...
... Concord , where he dwelt until his death . This choice of a residence on Emerson's part was the thing which made Concord a sort of literary Emerson in Mecca ; for the " Concord school " of Amer- Concord . ican writers , of course ...
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American Literature, 1607-1885: The development of American thought Charles Francis Richardson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1886 |
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Sida 241 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Sida 196 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Sida 189 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House?
Sida 204 - ... the foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the pre-eminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens and command the respect of the world.
Sida 255 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his...
Sida 255 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Sida 196 - Sometimes it is said, that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or, have we found angels in the form of kings, to govern him ? Let history answer this question.
Sida 254 - The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Sida 241 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of...
Sida 410 - Tis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood. Should bloom, after cycles of struggle and scathe, With a single anemone trembly and rathe ; His strength is so tender, his...