Scribner's Magazine ..., Volume 23C. Scribner's sons, 1898 |
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Page 631 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 16 - ... When your lordships look at the papers transmitted to us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and...
Page 16 - ... has been my favorite study— I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world— that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 721 - I do acknowledge the United States of America to be free, independent and sovereign states, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third, King of Great Britain...
Page 400 - Fortunately, Congress, prior to their adjournment, had resolved that " until they should otherwise order, General Washington should be possessed of all power to order and direct all things relative to the department and to the operations of war.
Page 273 - For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office : so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and everyone members one of another.
Page 21 - For they speak not peace : but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. 21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Page 210 - in the pages of history to furnish a case like ours. To maintain a post, within musket-shot of the enemy, for six months together, without ammunition, and at the same time, to disband one army and recruit another, within that distance of twenty odd British regiments, is more probably than ever was attempted.
Page 18 - God made all men naturally equal. 2. The ideas of earthly superiority, pre-eminence, and grandeur, are educational, at least, acquired, not innate. 3. Kings were (and plantation governors should be) made for the good of the people, and not the people for them.
Page 426 - Nevermore thou needest seek Me ; I am with thee everywhere; Raise the stone, and thou shalt find Me ; cleave the wood, and I am there.