American Prose: Selections, with Critical Introductions by Various WritersGeorge Rice Carpenter Macmillan Company, 1898 - 465 Seiten |
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... expression of a new nation , and a nation whose life is based , on the whole , upon a single and consistent set of principles . Though our people speak a common language , we did not spring from a single race , but are rather formed ...
... expression of a new nation , and a nation whose life is based , on the whole , upon a single and consistent set of principles . Though our people speak a common language , we did not spring from a single race , but are rather formed ...
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... been the natural form of expression in American literature , a form wholly conso- nant with our national mood , that of clear - headed , well - ordered aspiration . The part of literature which we call poetry xiv AMERICAN PROSE.
... been the natural form of expression in American literature , a form wholly conso- nant with our national mood , that of clear - headed , well - ordered aspiration . The part of literature which we call poetry xiv AMERICAN PROSE.
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... expression is impious ; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God . Whether the independence of the continent was declared too soon , or delayed too long , I will not now enter into as an argument ; my own simple opinion is , that ...
... expression is impious ; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God . Whether the independence of the continent was declared too soon , or delayed too long , I will not now enter into as an argument ; my own simple opinion is , that ...
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... expression . It was always strong and stately , always noble and majestic , always virile and intensely masterful . Yet there was no heaviness about it , as there was about the style of Benton ; his thought flashed through it all with a ...
... expression . It was always strong and stately , always noble and majestic , always virile and intensely masterful . Yet there was no heaviness about it , as there was about the style of Benton ; his thought flashed through it all with a ...
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... expression . Two small grey eyes twinkled feebly in the midst , like two stars of lesser magnitude in a hazy firmament ; and his full - fed cheeks , which seemed to have taken toll of everything that went into his mouth , were curiously ...
... expression . Two small grey eyes twinkled feebly in the midst , like two stars of lesser magnitude in a hazy firmament ; and his full - fed cheeks , which seemed to have taken toll of everything that went into his mouth , were curiously ...
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Seite 259 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Seite 34 - 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.
Seite 78 - 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.
Seite 192 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Seite 20 - They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Therefore they say unto God, "Depart from us ; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. "What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Seite 259 - ... \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.
Seite 129 - ... be some one of the neighborhood in need of his assistance, he hastened down to yield it. On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.
Seite 104 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Seite 37 - 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.
Seite 80 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...