Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1852 |
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... jail . If the poor forsake a church , be sure that the church forsook God long before . But the church must have an action on others out of its pale . If a man or a society of men have a truth , they hold it not for themselves alone ...
... jail . If the poor forsake a church , be sure that the church forsook God long before . But the church must have an action on others out of its pale . If a man or a society of men have a truth , they hold it not for themselves alone ...
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... jails , the victims of vice in all our towns ? Why , from the lowest rank of the people ; from the poorest and most ignorant ! Say rather from the most neglected , and the public sin is confessed and the remedy hinted at . What have the ...
... jails , the victims of vice in all our towns ? Why , from the lowest rank of the people ; from the poorest and most ignorant ! Say rather from the most neglected , and the public sin is confessed and the remedy hinted at . What have the ...
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... jail is a monument , on which it is writ in letters of iron that we are still hea- thens , and the gallows , black and hideous , the embodiment of death , the last argument a " Christian " State offers to the poor wretches it trained up ...
... jail is a monument , on which it is writ in letters of iron that we are still hea- thens , and the gallows , black and hideous , the embodiment of death , the last argument a " Christian " State offers to the poor wretches it trained up ...
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... jail , and by a contrivance which shortens the agony and makes death humane as possible . These forty- eight men were hanged slowly ; put to death with painful procrastinations , their agony wilfully prolonged , and death embittered by ...
... jail , and by a contrivance which shortens the agony and makes death humane as possible . These forty- eight men were hanged slowly ; put to death with painful procrastinations , their agony wilfully prolonged , and death embittered by ...
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... jail and blot the gallows with unusual shame , to teach us all that such is war , and such the results of every " famous victory , " such the imperishable honors that it brings , and how the war- makers love the men they rule ! Oh ...
... jail and blot the gallows with unusual shame , to teach us all that such is war , and such the results of every " famous victory , " such the imperishable honors that it brings , and how the war- makers love the men they rule ! Oh ...
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Page 50 - And I looked, and there was none to help; And I wondered that there was none to uphold : Therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; And my fury, it upheld me.
Page 333 - Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned adorned the most.
Page 168 - Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt, The Douglass in red herrings ; And noble name and cultured land, Palace, and park, and vassal band. Are powerless to the notes of hand Of Rothschild or the Barings.
Page 71 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms— the day Battle's magnificently stern array! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse,— friend, foe,— in one red burial blent!
Page 70 - She filled the helm, and back she hied, And with surprise and joy espied A monk supporting Marmion's head ; A pious man whom duty brought To dubious verge of battle fought, To shrive the dying, bless the dead. Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave, And, as she stooped his brow to lave — " Is it the hand of Clare," he said, "Or injured Constance, bathes my head?
Page 28 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Page 127 - My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust ; who subdueth my people under me.
Page 28 - For humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into history's golden urn.
Page 8 - We know that God spake unto Moses ; but as for this fellow, we know not whence he is.