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... story had been industri- ously propagated in this and the neighboring towns to injure the cause and blast your reputation : namely , that you and your President had gone on board of a man- of - war from New York and sailed for England ...
... story had been industri- ously propagated in this and the neighboring towns to injure the cause and blast your reputation : namely , that you and your President had gone on board of a man- of - war from New York and sailed for England ...
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... story , Wave o'er us all who inherit their fame ! Up with our banner bright , Sprinkled with starry light , Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore , While through the sounding sky Loud rings the nation's cry , - Union and ...
... story , Wave o'er us all who inherit their fame ! Up with our banner bright , Sprinkled with starry light , Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore , While through the sounding sky Loud rings the nation's cry , - Union and ...
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... story of Pizarro and the Peruvian Inca : how the Inca asked one of the Spaniards to write the word Dios ( God ) upon his thumbnail , and then , showing it to the rest , found only Pizarro unable to read it ! Well , you will find as you ...
... story of Pizarro and the Peruvian Inca : how the Inca asked one of the Spaniards to write the word Dios ( God ) upon his thumbnail , and then , showing it to the rest , found only Pizarro unable to read it ! Well , you will find as you ...
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... story ? Patience and perseverance these are the sails and the rudder even of genius , without which it is only a wretched hulk upon the waters . It is not fair to look a gift horse in the mouth , unless , indeed , it be a wooden horse ...
... story ? Patience and perseverance these are the sails and the rudder even of genius , without which it is only a wretched hulk upon the waters . It is not fair to look a gift horse in the mouth , unless , indeed , it be a wooden horse ...
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... story of a wound received at the famous Battle of the Pines , when our tribe , overcome by numbers , was driven from its ancient camping - ground . THREE WORDS BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THERE are three short and simple words , the hardest ...
... story of a wound received at the famous Battle of the Pines , when our tribe , overcome by numbers , was driven from its ancient camping - ground . THREE WORDS BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THERE are three short and simple words , the hardest ...
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Page 48 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own government...
Page 43 - 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 orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Page 364 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 357 - Yet Love will dream, and Faith will trust, (Since He who knows our need is just,) That somehow, somewhere, meet we must.
Page 26 - Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Page 142 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth, "For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more...
Page 42 - 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 battle-field 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...
Page 152 - Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord. For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
Page 146 - This was the truest warrior That ever buckled sword, This the most gifted poet That ever breathed a word; And never earth's philosopher Traced with his golden pen, On the deathless page, truths half so sage As he wrote down for men.
Page 252 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.