Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1852 |
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... person . They say , " Behold a Prophet . " When Jesus , the son of Mary , a poor woman , wife of Joseph , the carpenter , in the little town of Nazareth , when he " began to be about thirty years old , " and began also to open his mouth ...
... person . They say , " Behold a Prophet . " When Jesus , the son of Mary , a poor woman , wife of Joseph , the carpenter , in the little town of Nazareth , when he " began to be about thirty years old , " and began also to open his mouth ...
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... person of the ages ; the proudest achievement of the human race . He taught the absolute religion , love to God and man . That God has yet greater men in store I doubt not ; to say this is not to detract from the majestic character of ...
... person of the ages ; the proudest achievement of the human race . He taught the absolute religion , love to God and man . That God has yet greater men in store I doubt not ; to say this is not to detract from the majestic character of ...
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... person , sometimes the foe of society , but far oftener the victim of society . Whence come the tenants of our alms- houses , jails , the victims of vice in all our towns ? Why , from the lowest rank of the people ; from the poorest and ...
... person , sometimes the foe of society , but far oftener the victim of society . Whence come the tenants of our alms- houses , jails , the victims of vice in all our towns ? Why , from the lowest rank of the people ; from the poorest and ...
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... persons in this State alone , whose daily bread depends on this business . They cannot fish in troubled waters , for they are fishermen , not politicians . Where could they find bread or cloth in time of war ? In Dartmoor 52 SERMON OF WAR .
... persons in this State alone , whose daily bread depends on this business . They cannot fish in troubled waters , for they are fishermen , not politicians . Where could they find bread or cloth in time of war ? In Dartmoor 52 SERMON OF WAR .
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... person . To meet the expenses of the war each year there would have been required a tax of $ 33.75 on each man , woman and child ! In the Florida war we spent between $ 30,000,000 and $ 40,000,000 , as an eminent statesman once said ...
... person . To meet the expenses of the war each year there would have been required a tax of $ 33.75 on each man , woman and child ! In the Florida war we spent between $ 30,000,000 and $ 40,000,000 , as an eminent statesman once said ...
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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.