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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... young fellow , and upon examination , stated that he belonged to Stewart's Cavalry , that his General had crossed the Potomac the night before at Seneca Creek , that he was encamped down the road about two miles with five brigades of ...
... young fellow , and upon examination , stated that he belonged to Stewart's Cavalry , that his General had crossed the Potomac the night before at Seneca Creek , that he was encamped down the road about two miles with five brigades of ...
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... young America , it is said , has no such token in her banner . It does not seem , to the author of the following stanzas , that such an objection is well - founded . At all events , be has been accustomed to read its emblems with a ...
... young America , it is said , has no such token in her banner . It does not seem , to the author of the following stanzas , that such an objection is well - founded . At all events , be has been accustomed to read its emblems with a ...
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... young gentlemen ! Stand by the Flag ! " And there is not a dry eye among those standing around ; all are alike moved to tears . Then one by one the students go on board , and as the sun sinks in the west , all take a last look at the ...
... young gentlemen ! Stand by the Flag ! " And there is not a dry eye among those standing around ; all are alike moved to tears . Then one by one the students go on board , and as the sun sinks in the west , all take a last look at the ...
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... young men . The elements of national greatness , which reside wholly in individual character , have been stimulated through the swift ministers of death , into rapid yet healthy growth ; and , with the multitudes that have fallen ...
... young men . The elements of national greatness , which reside wholly in individual character , have been stimulated through the swift ministers of death , into rapid yet healthy growth ; and , with the multitudes that have fallen ...
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... young flushed and angry ( " Cause he wouldn't let me be , " ) Pitching hot into the other ? brother , AS IT SHALL BE . Every trace of childish passion From their brows , the mother wipes ; As she smooths , in nightly fashion , Their ...
... young flushed and angry ( " Cause he wouldn't let me be , " ) Pitching hot into the other ? brother , AS IT SHALL BE . Every trace of childish passion From their brows , the mother wipes ; As she smooths , in nightly fashion , Their ...
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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...