Occasional Addresses: And the Letters of Mr. Ambrose on the Rebellion |
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... labor of prosecuting it through its early stages . Such an idea has , certainly , never entered into their thoughts . For myself , I speak with a clear conscience when I say , that I have no aim , in this undertaking , which does not ...
... labor of prosecuting it through its early stages . Such an idea has , certainly , never entered into their thoughts . For myself , I speak with a clear conscience when I say , that I have no aim , in this undertaking , which does not ...
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... labor , and will devote the poor faculties with which God has endowed me , to its achievement , with a joyous spirit , if I can indulge a rational hope to see my efforts rewarded with success . My coadjutors stand in a like predicament ...
... labor , and will devote the poor faculties with which God has endowed me , to its achievement , with a joyous spirit , if I can indulge a rational hope to see my efforts rewarded with success . My coadjutors stand in a like predicament ...
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... labor . Such , in brief , is the march of humanity : —and thus do the wants of that restless , changeful creature man provoke him to pursuits and attain- ments which severally give a sign or character to the manifold varieties of human ...
... labor . Such , in brief , is the march of humanity : —and thus do the wants of that restless , changeful creature man provoke him to pursuits and attain- ments which severally give a sign or character to the manifold varieties of human ...
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... labor of the husbandman . We have sheltered valleys , where the fierce north wind is denied approach ; and we have low lands bordering on our river , where the winter is sooner com- pelled to dissolve his icy fetters , and release the ...
... labor of the husbandman . We have sheltered valleys , where the fierce north wind is denied approach ; and we have low lands bordering on our river , where the winter is sooner com- pelled to dissolve his icy fetters , and release the ...
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... labor , and rob toil of its fatigue : they light up the countenances of the poor ; and they make it a happy and enviable thing to the stranger to have a heritage in this land . Such may be said to be a picture of our country through the ...
... labor , and rob toil of its fatigue : they light up the countenances of the poor ; and they make it a happy and enviable thing to the stranger to have a heritage in this land . Such may be said to be a picture of our country through the ...
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Page 448 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 115 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 122 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Page 351 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Page 124 - So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave...
Page 146 - I, AB, do utterly testify and declare in my conscience, that the Queen's Highness is the only supreme governor of this realm, and of all other Her Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual and ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal ; and that no foreign Prince.
Page 296 - The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs, as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane...
Page 143 - Knight, late Baron of Baltimore, in our said Kingdom of Ireland, treading in the steps of his Father, being animated with a laudable, and pious Zeal for extending the Christian Religion, and also the Territories of our Empire...
Page 462 - Mr. MASON observed, not only that the present Confederation was deficient in not providing for coercion and punishment against delinquent States ; but argued very cogently, that punishment could not in the nature of things be executed on the States collectively, and therefore that such a government was necessary as could directly operate on individuals, and would punish those only whose guilt required it.
Page 461 - States to the contrary notwithstanding; and that if any State, or any body of men in any State shall oppose or prevent the carrying into execution such acts or treaties...