American Prose: SelectionsMacmillan, 1898 - Počet stran: 465 |
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... Letter to Mr. Strahan Letter to Joseph Priestley A Dialogue • GEORGE WASHINGTON . To the Governors of All the States . THOMAS PAINE Government and Freedom An American Navy . The Crisis • The Universal Right of Conscience A Profession of ...
... Letter to Mr. Strahan Letter to Joseph Priestley A Dialogue • GEORGE WASHINGTON . To the Governors of All the States . THOMAS PAINE Government and Freedom An American Navy . The Crisis • The Universal Right of Conscience A Profession of ...
Strana viii
... Letter EDWARD EVERETT HALE , JR . HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Footprints of Angels The Valley of the Loire GEORGE SANTAYANA LEWIS EDWARDS GATES CHARLES F. RICHARDSON ABRAHAM LINCOLN First Inaugural Address Letter to General McClellan ...
... Letter EDWARD EVERETT HALE , JR . HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Footprints of Angels The Valley of the Loire GEORGE SANTAYANA LEWIS EDWARDS GATES CHARLES F. RICHARDSON ABRAHAM LINCOLN First Inaugural Address Letter to General McClellan ...
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Selections George Rice Carpenter. ABRAHAM LINCOLN First Inaugural Address Letter to General McClellan Address at Gettysburg Second Inaugural Address PAGE HARRY THURSTON PECK 257 260 262 • 264 265 EDGAR ALLAN POE Shadow - A Parable Ligeia ...
Selections George Rice Carpenter. ABRAHAM LINCOLN First Inaugural Address Letter to General McClellan Address at Gettysburg Second Inaugural Address PAGE HARRY THURSTON PECK 257 260 262 • 264 265 EDGAR ALLAN POE Shadow - A Parable Ligeia ...
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... letters , and journals , through researches into the development of intellectual , moral , and political movements , through our growing knowledge and appreciation of existing and preëxisting social conditions , we begin slowly to ...
... letters , and journals , through researches into the development of intellectual , moral , and political movements , through our growing knowledge and appreciation of existing and preëxisting social conditions , we begin slowly to ...
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... letter or two of our Alphabet , which the Indians never had in theirs ; tho ' there were enough of the Dog in their Temper , there can scarce be found an R in their Language ; ( any more than in the Language of the Chinese , or of the ...
... letter or two of our Alphabet , which the Indians never had in theirs ; tho ' there were enough of the Dog in their Temper , there can scarce be found an R in their Language ; ( any more than in the Language of the Chinese , or of the ...
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American appeared arms army Barnstable beauty blood Boabdil called character Charles Brockden Brown Cuzco death earth effect Emerson enemy England English essays expression eyes fact feeling G. P. Putnam's Sons give governor habit hand happy Hawthorne's head heard heart heaven honor horse human imagination Indian Irving land less letters liberty literary literature live look mind Mother Rigby mountain nature never night old Castile passed perhaps person pipe Poe's political Poor Richard says Prescott prose Puritan Rip Van Winkle romance scarecrow Scarlet Letter seemed seen sense side soldier soul Spaniards Specimen Days spirit stand stood Storg story style tell thee things thou thought tion Topsy true truth turned Uncle Tom's Cabin voice whole witch woods words Wouter Van Twiller writings Zoeterwoude
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Strana 80 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strana 194 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Strana 261 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it.
Strana 106 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Strana 36 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Strana 39 - And again, Three removes are as bad as a fire ; and again, Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee ; and again, If you would have your business done, go ; if not, send. And again — He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Strana 113 - 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...
Strana 133 - He recalled the occurrences before he fell asleep. The strange man with a keg of liquor — the mountain ravine — the wild retreat among the rocks — the woe-begone party at nine-pins — the flagon — " Oh ! that flagon ! that wicked flagon ! " thought Rip — " what excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle?
Strana 39 - A little neglect may breed great mischief ; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Strana 82 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...