Speeches, Lectures, and LettersLee and Shepard, 1891 - 476 páginas |
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... legislature on the head of a citizen of Massachusetts , for presuming to think as he pleased , and to speak what he thought , within the borders of the old Commonwealth ; and this insult had been answered only by a recommen- dation on ...
... legislature on the head of a citizen of Massachusetts , for presuming to think as he pleased , and to speak what he thought , within the borders of the old Commonwealth ; and this insult had been answered only by a recommen- dation on ...
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... legislature . [ Cheers . ] Thank God , November has ripened this evidence for us . We have set up a mile - stone of progress which the blindest can feel , if he cannot see . [ Cheers . ] That a large party should follow Mr. Webster ...
... legislature . [ Cheers . ] Thank God , November has ripened this evidence for us . We have set up a mile - stone of progress which the blindest can feel , if he cannot see . [ Cheers . ] That a large party should follow Mr. Webster ...
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... Legislature at our heels , and they shall pay for a monument to Attucks . [ Loud cheers , and cries of " Good . " ] It will be but the magnanimous atone- ment for the injury and forgetfulness of so many years . They owe it to him , and ...
... Legislature at our heels , and they shall pay for a monument to Attucks . [ Loud cheers , and cries of " Good . " ] It will be but the magnanimous atone- ment for the injury and forgetfulness of so many years . They owe it to him , and ...
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Wendell Phillips. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT . Plea before a Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature , March 16 , 1855 . I HAVE not been able , Mr. Chairman , to attend any of the hearings of this Committee , and therefore I cannot be said to ...
Wendell Phillips. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT . Plea before a Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature , March 16 , 1855 . I HAVE not been able , Mr. Chairman , to attend any of the hearings of this Committee , and therefore I cannot be said to ...
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... that make the compact have not got it , and therefore they cannot give it to the government . Your legislature , according to that Constitution , has no rights except what the people have given them . The people 80 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT .
... that make the compact have not got it , and therefore they cannot give it to the government . Your legislature , according to that Constitution , has no rights except what the people have given them . The people 80 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT .
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Página 212 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Página 321 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Página 407 - May my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if ever I prove false to those teachings.
Página 92 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Página 11 - Forgive me this my virtue; For in the fatness of these pursy times, Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, Yea, curb* and woo, for leave to do him good.
Página 343 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Página 9 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Página 207 - Nor is it at all incredible, that a book, which has been so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind several thousand years before.
Página 206 - I charge you before God, and his blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveal any thing to you by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it, as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry ; for I am verily persuaded, I am very confident, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Página 340 - Her haughty Schools Shall blush ; and may not we with sorrow say, A few strong instincts and a few plain rules Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind at this unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought...