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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Página xiii
... minds of that period . It would seem as if the Almighty Ruler of Nations permitted discontent to rise up against the Government , in order to elicit the incontrovertible arguments which must ever stand out , against all attempts to ...
... minds of that period . It would seem as if the Almighty Ruler of Nations permitted discontent to rise up against the Government , in order to elicit the incontrovertible arguments which must ever stand out , against all attempts to ...
Página xv
... minds , led each State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude , than might have been otherwise expected ; and thus the Constitution , which we now present , is the result of a spirit of amity , and of that ...
... minds , led each State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude , than might have been otherwise expected ; and thus the Constitution , which we now present , is the result of a spirit of amity , and of that ...
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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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... minds of the infuriated leaders , but upon the masses of a people en- dowed with average intelligence ? Much as we have suffered by the war , there is no bitterness or exasperation on the part of the North ; why should we suppose angry ...
... minds of the infuriated leaders , but upon the masses of a people en- dowed with average intelligence ? Much as we have suffered by the war , there is no bitterness or exasperation on the part of the North ; why should we suppose angry ...
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... minds of the South . There are Union citizens of the highest social position on the Mississippi river , who have ... mind was deluded and prepared for secession , and the ambitious motives , on the part of the leaders , for which the ...
... minds of the South . There are Union citizens of the highest social position on the Mississippi river , who have ... mind was deluded and prepared for secession , and the ambitious motives , on the part of the leaders , for which the ...
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Página xv - 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.
Página 286 - 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 287 - 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 286 - 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 xiv - 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 316 - 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 xiv - 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 286 - 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 xviii - It has often given me pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected, fertile, wide-spreading country, was the portion of our western sons of liberty.
Página 423 - 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.