Occasional Addresses: And the Letters of Mr. Ambrose on the Rebellion |
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... religious toleration , and no preference is to be as- serted of one religious sect over another . A further provision will also be made , in reference to this subject , that no student shall be required to attend the lectures on ...
... religious toleration , and no preference is to be as- serted of one religious sect over another . A further provision will also be made , in reference to this subject , that no student shall be required to attend the lectures on ...
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... make the heart of the religious man thankful , when he remembers them as the blessings of Providence : they spread cheerfulness and content , —the rich- est of earthly blessings , —over the whole people : 34 OCCASIONAL ADDRESSES .
... make the heart of the religious man thankful , when he remembers them as the blessings of Providence : they spread cheerfulness and content , —the rich- est of earthly blessings , —over the whole people : 34 OCCASIONAL ADDRESSES .
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... religion . He who will read the history of our race , will find that in all ages they have had curious mystical associations with our being ; they have been our oracles , our monitors , our talismans . The cre- dulity of our ancestors ...
... religion . He who will read the history of our race , will find that in all ages they have had curious mystical associations with our being ; they have been our oracles , our monitors , our talismans . The cre- dulity of our ancestors ...
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... religious mind serves as a memorial of the most sublime event in the annals of the human family . Then , too , this world of flowers , how does it speak to us of the fairy enchantments , and wonder - working spells of that superstition ...
... religious mind serves as a memorial of the most sublime event in the annals of the human family . Then , too , this world of flowers , how does it speak to us of the fairy enchantments , and wonder - working spells of that superstition ...
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... religious mind . When a great man dies this regret spreads itself over a wider circle . He who has lived for his country ; whose thoughts , words and actions have been earnest to do good in his generation ; whose faculties for ...
... religious mind . When a great man dies this regret spreads itself over a wider circle . He who has lived for his country ; whose thoughts , words and actions have been earnest to do good in his generation ; whose faculties for ...
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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...