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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... morning reveille will waken them no more ; children ask every evening when their father will come home , who will never feel the warm pressure of his hand again ; and " there is not a house , where there is not one dead . " What does it ...
... morning reveille will waken them no more ; children ask every evening when their father will come home , who will never feel the warm pressure of his hand again ; and " there is not a house , where there is not one dead . " What does it ...
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... morning breeze kissed the glorious old stars and stripes , under which our fathers made us free ; and whenever or wherever in foreign lands , an American saw that banner given to the winds , he felt that he was safe , and his heart ...
... morning breeze kissed the glorious old stars and stripes , under which our fathers made us free ; and whenever or wherever in foreign lands , an American saw that banner given to the winds , he felt that he was safe , and his heart ...
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... morning . We are weary of strife ; weary of sending our brave boys to the war , and having them returned to us sick , maimed and dying . Our hearts are very weary of this work of death ; weary of all the ghastly horrors of the battle ...
... morning . We are weary of strife ; weary of sending our brave boys to the war , and having them returned to us sick , maimed and dying . Our hearts are very weary of this work of death ; weary of all the ghastly horrors of the battle ...
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... morning of the 29th dawned upon us bright and beautiful . The reveille started me from my slumbers at the first grey of the morning . Preparations were made for a speedy departure , and with the rising of the sun , we resumed our march ...
... morning of the 29th dawned upon us bright and beautiful . The reveille started me from my slumbers at the first grey of the morning . Preparations were made for a speedy departure , and with the rising of the sun , we resumed our march ...
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... morning . As evidence of the truth of his story , he brought with him a prisoner who proved to be a very intelligent young fellow , and upon examination , stated that he belonged to Stewart's Cavalry , that his General had crossed the ...
... morning . As evidence of the truth of his story , he brought with him a prisoner who proved to be a very intelligent young fellow , and upon examination , stated that he belonged to Stewart's Cavalry , that his General had crossed the ...
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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...