Our Country, in Its Relations to the Past, Present and Future: A National Book, Consisting of Original Articles in Prose and Verse, Contributed by American WritersMrs. Lincoln Phelps J. D. Toy, 1864 - 423 páginas |
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... HEAD NOTES FROM CAMP AND FIEld . Col. Charles E. Phelps , 7th Reg . Vols . , Maryland , 149 THE BLUE COAT OF THE SOLDIER . Rt . Rev. George Burgess , Bishop of Maine , 182 ON THE NAME AMERICA .... .... Mrs . Emma Willard , New York ...
... HEAD NOTES FROM CAMP AND FIEld . Col. Charles E. Phelps , 7th Reg . Vols . , Maryland , 149 THE BLUE COAT OF THE SOLDIER . Rt . Rev. George Burgess , Bishop of Maine , 182 ON THE NAME AMERICA .... .... Mrs . Emma Willard , New York ...
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... ours , they imagined themselves to be cavaliers , and derided us as round - heads ; not bearing in mind , even if that comparison were better founded in fact , that it was not , in the light of history , a very RESTORATION OF THE UNION .
... ours , they imagined themselves to be cavaliers , and derided us as round - heads ; not bearing in mind , even if that comparison were better founded in fact , that it was not , in the light of history , a very RESTORATION OF THE UNION .
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... head on the bosom of his Northern brother ; heart to heart , hand in hand , they grappled with the stern agonies of death , and passed away together to the land of spirits . To - day , the children of those men stand face to face on the ...
... head on the bosom of his Northern brother ; heart to heart , hand in hand , they grappled with the stern agonies of death , and passed away together to the land of spirits . To - day , the children of those men stand face to face on the ...
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... head - quarters with a despatch from the General Commanding , directing immediate con- centration of the Regiment , and its embarkation for the City of Baltimore . The news spread , there was a stir in camp ; the soldier understood ...
... head - quarters with a despatch from the General Commanding , directing immediate con- centration of the Regiment , and its embarkation for the City of Baltimore . The news spread , there was a stir in camp ; the soldier understood ...
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... heads of some Pennsylvanians in the rifle pits , checked their headway , and two more sent them flying back . The enemy rallied again , and we advanced and took possession of the rifle pits and relieved the Pennsylvanians , whose ...
... heads of some Pennsylvanians in the rifle pits , checked their headway , and two more sent them flying back . The enemy rallied again , and we advanced and took possession of the rifle pits and relieved the Pennsylvanians , whose ...
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Página 260 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Página v - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected...
Página 261 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished; but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Página 260 - Seeing, then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness; looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt away with fervent heat.
Página iv - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the General Government of the Union...
Página 290 - When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main ; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : " Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves!
Página iv - It is obviously impracticable, in the Federal Government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all.
Página 260 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Página 397 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Página 27 - II. in 1660, — twenty years of discord, conflict, and civil war ; of confiscation, plunder, havoc ; a proud hereditary peerage trampled in the dust ; a national church overturned, its clergy beggared, its most eminent prelate put to death ; a military despotism established on the ruins of a monarchy which had subsisted seven hundred years, and the legitimate sovereign brought to the block ; the great families which adhered to the king proscribed, impoverished, ruined ; prisoners of war — a fate...