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... live all freemen ? 5 As Cæsar loved me , I weep for him ; as he was fortunate , I rejoice at it ; as he was valiant , I honor him ; but as he was ambitious , I slew him . There is tears for his love , joy for his fortune , honor for his ...
... live all freemen ? 5 As Cæsar loved me , I weep for him ; as he was fortunate , I rejoice at it ; as he was valiant , I honor him ; but as he was ambitious , I slew him . There is tears for his love , joy for his fortune , honor for his ...
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... live as a conqueror , a king , or a magis- trate ; but he must die as a man . DANIEL WEBSTER . series comes unexpectedly , and affords a nice illustra- tion of the use of the two connectives and the useful- ness of understanding them ...
... live as a conqueror , a king , or a magis- trate ; but he must die as a man . DANIEL WEBSTER . series comes unexpectedly , and affords a nice illustra- tion of the use of the two connectives and the useful- ness of understanding them ...
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... live one , either the first will quench the last , or the last will kindle the first . Since , then , the danger is so great , caution must be used in entering into these familiarities with the vulgar , remembering that it is impossible ...
... live one , either the first will quench the last , or the last will kindle the first . Since , then , the danger is so great , caution must be used in entering into these familiarities with the vulgar , remembering that it is impossible ...
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... Lives and Services of Adams and Jefferson . Faneuil Hall , Boston , Aug. 2 , 1826 . 4 1 True eloquence , indeed , does not consist in speech . It cannot be brought from far . 3 Labor and learning may toil for it , but they will toil in ...
... Lives and Services of Adams and Jefferson . Faneuil Hall , Boston , Aug. 2 , 1826 . 4 1 True eloquence , indeed , does not consist in speech . It cannot be brought from far . 3 Labor and learning may toil for it , but they will toil in ...
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... live . 25. Swans sing before they die ; ' t were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing . 26. After I had resided at college seven years , my father died and left me his blessing . 21. The same , lengthened to series ...
... live . 25. Swans sing before they die ; ' t were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing . 26. After I had resided at college seven years , my father died and left me his blessing . 21. The same , lengthened to series ...
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Page 501 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced...
Page 503 - The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death Through the still lapse of ages.
Page 503 - All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 360 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
Page 502 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart, Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around— Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
Page 209 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 308 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 232 - ... tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh: For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.
Page 503 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 96 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn,.