Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life, Volume 2Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852 |
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... course I had marked out for myself was the result of long - cherished views of justice to our own people , and was approved and encouraged by others , whose opinion and judgement were entitled to the highest consideration . First among ...
... course I had marked out for myself was the result of long - cherished views of justice to our own people , and was approved and encouraged by others , whose opinion and judgement were entitled to the highest consideration . First among ...
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... whether he must push off his frail bark alone , and , - steer whatever course he may , - ― -still be in danger of shattering his vessel against that THE BOSTON COURIER . 13 unknown to me. The proposed convention met at ...
... whether he must push off his frail bark alone , and , - steer whatever course he may , - ― -still be in danger of shattering his vessel against that THE BOSTON COURIER . 13 unknown to me. The proposed convention met at ...
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... course we have endeavored to pursue , as editors , and to the path we have marked out for futurity , that we have selected it as a text for some thoughts that may be woven into a very grave dilucidatory discourse . " Our first homage ...
... course we have endeavored to pursue , as editors , and to the path we have marked out for futurity , that we have selected it as a text for some thoughts that may be woven into a very grave dilucidatory discourse . " Our first homage ...
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... their principals at home ; and what prevents South - Carolina from pursuing a similar course , and sending an equal number of her young men to New - York , Providence , Boston , Portland and Salem ? The people 20 PERSONAL MEMOIRS .
... their principals at home ; and what prevents South - Carolina from pursuing a similar course , and sending an equal number of her young men to New - York , Providence , Boston , Portland and Salem ? The people 20 PERSONAL MEMOIRS .
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... course . We have thought much and deeply on this subject , and have been active in obtaining from the best sources of information such facts as have led us to believe that the policy now pursued in the northern states , the promotion of ...
... course . We have thought much and deeply on this subject , and have been active in obtaining from the best sources of information such facts as have led us to believe that the policy now pursued in the northern states , the promotion of ...
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Page 203 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 201 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 202 - 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 201 - Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 202 - Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, — they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
Page 205 - ... neath the all-beholding sun. That wrong is also done to us ; and they are slaves most base. Whose love of right is for themselves, and not for all their race. God works for all. Ye cannot hem the hope of being free With parallels of latitude, with mountain-range or sea. Put golden padlocks on Truth's lips, be callous as ye will, From soul to soul, o'er all the world, leaps one electric thrill.
Page 150 - Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, And the spirit shall return to God who gave it.
Page 201 - Falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shall stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 't is Truth alone is strong...
Page 15 - Albany — a project which every one knows, who knows the simplest rule in arithmetic, to be impracticable, but at an expense little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts; and which, if practicable, every person of common sense knows, would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon.
Page 70 - One voice that silence breaks — the prayer is said, And the last rite man pays to man is paid ; The plashing waters mark his resting-place, And fold him round in one long, cold embrace ; Bright bubbles for a moment sparkle o'er. Then break, to be, like him, beheld no more ; Down, countless fathoms down, he sinks to sleep. With all the nameless shapes that haunt the deep.