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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... standing encouragement to the leaders of the revolt and their suc- cessors , to decide all future controversies by the sword . We must never forget , in this connection , the purely unprovoked and aggressive manner in which the war was ...
... standing encouragement to the leaders of the revolt and their suc- cessors , to decide all future controversies by the sword . We must never forget , in this connection , the purely unprovoked and aggressive manner in which the war was ...
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... much as Gibraltar belongs to England . Now suppose that Spain , feeling as she does keenly that this encampment of a foreign power upon her soil is a standing reminder of her weakness and decline , -in fact 18 OUR COUNTRY .
... much as Gibraltar belongs to England . Now suppose that Spain , feeling as she does keenly that this encampment of a foreign power upon her soil is a standing reminder of her weakness and decline , -in fact 18 OUR COUNTRY .
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... standing reminder of her weakness and decline , -in fact a great territorial and political eyesore , —should first propose to buy Gibraltar of the British Government , and send Commissioners to London to negotiate the purchase , as ...
... standing reminder of her weakness and decline , -in fact a great territorial and political eyesore , —should first propose to buy Gibraltar of the British Government , and send Commissioners to London to negotiate the purchase , as ...
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... standing the pains taken by the rebel leaders , in their proclamations and addresses , and the rebel press in its editorial columns , to inflame the minds of the South . There are Union citizens of the highest social position on the ...
... standing the pains taken by the rebel leaders , in their proclamations and addresses , and the rebel press in its editorial columns , to inflame the minds of the South . There are Union citizens of the highest social position on the ...
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... standing army consisted of some twelve or fifteen thousand men , scattered here and there on the outposts ; in our navy- yards , unfinished ships had been rotting on the ways for more than forty years ; our military musters had become ...
... standing army consisted of some twelve or fifteen thousand men , scattered here and there on the outposts ; in our navy- yards , unfinished ships had been rotting on the ways for more than forty years ; our military musters had become ...
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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...