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 ix
... STARS OF MY COUNTRY'S SKY . Mrs. L. H. Sigourney , Connecticut , 52 OUR MARCH TO GETTYSBURG . Col. James Wallace , late of 1st Reg . E. S. Vols . , Maryland , 54 THE FLAG . Rev. Thomas Hill , D.D. , Pres . Harv . Un . , Massachusetts ...
... STARS OF MY COUNTRY'S SKY . Mrs. L. H. Sigourney , Connecticut , 52 OUR MARCH TO GETTYSBURG . Col. James Wallace , late of 1st Reg . E. S. Vols . , Maryland , 54 THE FLAG . Rev. Thomas Hill , D.D. , Pres . Harv . Un . , Massachusetts ...
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... Star vanished , -each one is there ; Not a Stripe faded , no where a stain : Welcome it merrily , speak of it cheerily ; God bless the day for the Old Flag again ! Sad was the season when it was struck ; Darker , still darker , days ...
... Star vanished , -each one is there ; Not a Stripe faded , no where a stain : Welcome it merrily , speak of it cheerily ; God bless the day for the Old Flag again ! Sad was the season when it was struck ; Darker , still darker , days ...
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... 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 bounded with loyal pride . To - day , that ...
... 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 bounded with loyal pride . To - day , that ...
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... white flags , when the Stars and the Stripes ought to be waving in the breeze , -and there they droop ingloriously , winding - sheets , pale shrouds , emblems of national death . They say , humanity calls upon us 5 THE REBELLION . ' 49.
... white flags , when the Stars and the Stripes ought to be waving in the breeze , -and there they droop ingloriously , winding - sheets , pale shrouds , emblems of national death . They say , humanity calls upon us 5 THE REBELLION . ' 49.
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... Is such a peace desirable ? Is it not better , that we should suffer a little longer , if then we can win a peace , for which our posterity will have no cause to curse us . STARS OF MY COUNTRY'S SKY . * ARE ye all THE REBELLION . 51.
... Is such a peace desirable ? Is it not better , that we should suffer a little longer , if then we can win a peace , for which our posterity will have no cause to curse us . STARS OF MY COUNTRY'S SKY . * ARE ye all THE REBELLION . 51.
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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.