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... Poetry , 275 The Slave Mother's Farewell , 236 Books , 277 The Parting , 237 The Moral Dignity of the Educa- tional Profession , 278 SAMUEL J. SMITH . The Great End of Society , 279 Biographical Sketch , 239 Bonaparte , 279 Oh , how ...
... Poetry , 275 The Slave Mother's Farewell , 236 Books , 277 The Parting , 237 The Moral Dignity of the Educa- tional Profession , 278 SAMUEL J. SMITH . The Great End of Society , 279 Biographical Sketch , 239 Bonaparte , 279 Oh , how ...
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... Poetry , Choosing a Profession , Seasons of Prayer , 1 DANIEL WEBSTER . 286 Biographical Sketch , 287 The Prospects of the Puritans , 339 345 287 Our Country in 1920 , 345 288 Address to the Surviving Soldiers of the Revolution , 346 ...
... Poetry , Choosing a Profession , Seasons of Prayer , 1 DANIEL WEBSTER . 286 Biographical Sketch , 287 The Prospects of the Puritans , 339 345 287 Our Country in 1920 , 345 288 Address to the Surviving Soldiers of the Revolution , 346 ...
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... Poetry , 619 Ichabod ! 665 Maud Muller , 666 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW . Democracy , 669 Biographical Sketch , 621 The Wish of To - Day , 670 A Psalm of Life , 621 Milton , 671 The Reaper and the Flowers , 622 Lord Byron , 672 ...
... Poetry , 619 Ichabod ! 665 Maud Muller , 666 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW . Democracy , 669 Biographical Sketch , 621 The Wish of To - Day , 670 A Psalm of Life , 621 Milton , 671 The Reaper and the Flowers , 622 Lord Byron , 672 ...
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... poetry written in America before hers that is at all equal to it . While I feel ashamed that my native State should ever have been engaged in the infamous traffic of slaves , I am proud to say that she was the least sinning in this ...
... poetry written in America before hers that is at all equal to it . While I feel ashamed that my native State should ever have been engaged in the infamous traffic of slaves , I am proud to say that she was the least sinning in this ...
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... poetry in translations from Ovid's Fables . So creditable were these to her scholarship , taste , and poetic talent , that she was encouraged to write more , and before she had completed her nineteenth year , she wrote most of her poems ...
... poetry in translations from Ovid's Fables . So creditable were these to her scholarship , taste , and poetic talent , that she was encouraged to write more , and before she had completed her nineteenth year , she wrote most of her poems ...
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Page 87 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations, cultivate peace and harmony with all ; religion and morality enjoin this conduct ; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 87 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 316 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Page 87 - It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ? Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that...
Page 88 - The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts, through passion, what reason would reject...
Page 479 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home...
Page 355 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Page 351 - We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Page 317 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Page 87 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.