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... faces the lead and iron like a man , is the truest representative we can show of the heroes of Crecy and Agincourt . And if one of our fine gentlemen puts off his straw - colored kids and stands by the other , shoulder to shoulder , or ...
... faces the lead and iron like a man , is the truest representative we can show of the heroes of Crecy and Agincourt . And if one of our fine gentlemen puts off his straw - colored kids and stands by the other , shoulder to shoulder , or ...
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... face when the great guns of war shake the waters , as when they roared over Charleston harbor . Treason came up , hideous , fit only to be huddled into its dishonorable grave . But the wrecks of precious virtues , which had been covered ...
... face when the great guns of war shake the waters , as when they roared over Charleston harbor . Treason came up , hideous , fit only to be huddled into its dishonorable grave . But the wrecks of precious virtues , which had been covered ...
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... face hardly seems fresher than the old . All battle - fields are alike in their main features . The young fellows who fell in our earlier struggle seemed like old men to us until within these few months ; now we remember they were like ...
... face hardly seems fresher than the old . All battle - fields are alike in their main features . The young fellows who fell in our earlier struggle seemed like old men to us until within these few months ; now we remember they were like ...
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... face , and added a personal tenderness to the sense of loss which I share with the whole community . Here , then , I parted , sorrowfully , from the companions with whom I set out on my jour- ney . In one of the cars , at the same ...
... face , and added a personal tenderness to the sense of loss which I share with the whole community . Here , then , I parted , sorrowfully , from the companions with whom I set out on my jour- ney . In one of the cars , at the same ...
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... pearance , with a grave , hard , honest , hay - beard- ed face , who had come to serve the sick and wounded on the battle - field and in its immedi- ate neighborhood . There is no reason why I should 44 MY HUNT AFTER " THE CAPTAIN . "
... pearance , with a grave , hard , honest , hay - beard- ed face , who had come to serve the sick and wounded on the battle - field and in its immedi- ate neighborhood . There is no reason why I should 44 MY HUNT AFTER " THE CAPTAIN . "
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Page 226 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Page 377 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet.
Page 175 - At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Page 461 - I should advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine were to perish, and only one of a thousand were to survive, and retain his liberty ! One such free man must possess more virtue, and enjoy more happiness, than a thousand slaves ; and let him propagate his like, and transmit to them what he hath so nobly preserved.
Page 413 - Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of Heaven on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.
Page 267 - It was so nearly like visiting the battlefield to look over these views, that all the emotions excited by the actual sight of the stained and sordid scene, strewed with rags and wrecks, came back to us, and we buried them in the recesses of our cabinet as we would have buried the mutilated remains of the dead they too vividly represented.
Page 266 - Let him who wishes to know what war is look at this series of illustrations.
Page 154 - I look into the eyes of the caged tiger, and on the scaly train of the crocodile, stretched on the sands of the river that has mirrored a hundred dynasties. I stroll through Rhenish vineyards, I sit under Roman arches, I walk the streets of once buried cities, I look into the chasms of Alpine glaciers, and on the rush of wasteful cataracts. I pass, in a moment, from the banks of the Charles to the ford of the Jordan, and leave my outward frame in the arm-chair at my table, while in spirit I am looking...