The Works of Charles Sumner, Том 2Lee and Shepard, 1875 |
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... Never any state Could rise or stand without this thirst of glory , Of noble works , as well the mould as story . For else what governor would spend his days In envious travel for the public good ? Who would in books search after dead ...
... Never any state Could rise or stand without this thirst of glory , Of noble works , as well the mould as story . For else what governor would spend his days In envious travel for the public good ? Who would in books search after dead ...
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... never seen , even in his vision of a Republic - feels a glow of selfish ambition , as , in tasks of the school , he daily cons the writings of this great master . 1 Epistolæ ad Diversos , Lib . V. 12. The letter to Lucceius seems to ...
... never seen , even in his vision of a Republic - feels a glow of selfish ambition , as , in tasks of the school , he daily cons the writings of this great master . 1 Epistolæ ad Diversos , Lib . V. 12. The letter to Lucceius seems to ...
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... never fails to do jus- tice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means . " 1 And the historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , who was no stranger to the Love of Glory , has given expression to the satisfaction which he ...
... never fails to do jus- tice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means . " 1 And the historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , who was no stranger to the Love of Glory , has given expression to the satisfaction which he ...
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... never to be mentioned without disgust . Historian , poet , and philosopher , false to every sacred office , have pandered to the praise of those who should have been gibbeted to the condemnation of mankind . Lucan , the youthful poet of ...
... never to be mentioned without disgust . Historian , poet , and philosopher , false to every sacred office , have pandered to the praise of those who should have been gibbeted to the condemnation of mankind . Lucan , the youthful poet of ...
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... never fails to exalt war , recognizes the parallel be- tween the soldier and the executioner ; but he finds the soldier so noble as to ennoble even the work of the executioner , when called to perform it . — Joseph de Maistre , Les ...
... never fails to exalt war , recognizes the parallel be- tween the soldier and the executioner ; but he finds the soldier so noble as to ennoble even the work of the executioner , when called to perform it . — Joseph de Maistre , Les ...
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Страница 323 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
Страница 344 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Страница 60 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont, Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up.
Страница 294 - Under these impressions, they earnestly entreat your serious attention to the subject of slavery; that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men who alone in this land of freedom are degraded into perpetual bondage, and who, amidst the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from the character of the American people...
Страница 28 - I wish popularity ; but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after ; it is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.
Страница 326 - Upon the decease of my wife, it is my will and desire, that all the slaves which I hold in my own right shall receive their freedom. To emancipate them during her life would, though earnestly wished by me, be attended with such insuperable difficulties, on account of their intermixture by...
Страница 334 - A State also of Equality, wherein all the Power and Jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another: there being nothing more evident, than that Creatures of the same species and rank promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without Subordination or Subjection...
Страница 370 - But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Страница 6 - His is a progress not to be compared with anything like a march — but it leads to a far more brilliant triumph, and to laurels more imperishable than the destroyer of his species, the scourge of the world, ever won.