Best Things from Best Authors, Volume 4Jacob W. Shoemaker Penn Publishing Company, 1908 |
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... honor to the memory of a murdered President . Lincoln fell at the close of a mighty struggle in which the passions of men had been deeply stirred . The tragical termination of his great life added but another to the lengthened ...
... honor to the memory of a murdered President . Lincoln fell at the close of a mighty struggle in which the passions of men had been deeply stirred . The tragical termination of his great life added but another to the lengthened ...
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... honor of our country , are everywhere to be found among the young men of America . But from his gradu- ation at Williams onward , to the hour of his tragical death , Garfield's career was eminent and exceptional . Slowly working through ...
... honor of our country , are everywhere to be found among the young men of America . But from his gradu- ation at Williams onward , to the hour of his tragical death , Garfield's career was eminent and exceptional . Slowly working through ...
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... his reputation in history will rest largely upon his service in the House of Representatives . That service was excep tionally long . He was nine times consecutively chosen to the House , an honor enjoyed by not more 14 BEST SELECTIONS.
... his reputation in history will rest largely upon his service in the House of Representatives . That service was excep tionally long . He was nine times consecutively chosen to the House , an honor enjoyed by not more 14 BEST SELECTIONS.
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... honor . As a candidate Garfield steadily grew in popular favor He was met with a storm of detraction at the very hour of his nomination , and it continued with increasing vol- ume and momentum until the close of his victorious cam ...
... honor . As a candidate Garfield steadily grew in popular favor He was met with a storm of detraction at the very hour of his nomination , and it continued with increasing vol- ume and momentum until the close of his victorious cam ...
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... honor from Trenton and Monmouth , from Yorktown , Camden , Bennington , and Saratoga . Veterans of half a century ! when , in your youthful days , you put everything at hazard in your country's cause , good as that cause was , and san ...
... honor from Trenton and Monmouth , from Yorktown , Camden , Bennington , and Saratoga . Veterans of half a century ! when , in your youthful days , you put everything at hazard in your country's cause , good as that cause was , and san ...
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Best Things from Best Authors: Comprising Number 1- of Shoemaker's ..., Volume 4 Jacob W. Shoemaker Visualização integral - 1895 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 110 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Página 110 - When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder ; Then did he see it, and declare it ; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Página 100 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Página 99 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity : so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Página 99 - Therewith bless we God, even the Father ; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Página 124 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Página 80 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : And the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Página 87 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time when this declaration shall be made good. We may die; die colonists ; die slaves ; die, it may be, ignominiously, and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while...
Página 87 - Publish it from the pulpit; religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it, or fall with it, Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support "Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see,...
Página 55 - And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.