Library of Southern Literature: BiographyEdwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris Martin & Hoyt Company, 1910 - American literature |
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Page 5639
... hope , be instrumental in animating the younger officers to a laudable emulation in the service of their country . Not that I apprehend any of them can be guilty of offences of this nature : but that there are many other misdemeanors ...
... hope , be instrumental in animating the younger officers to a laudable emulation in the service of their country . Not that I apprehend any of them can be guilty of offences of this nature : but that there are many other misdemeanors ...
Page 5648
... hope will apologize for the delay , and plead my excuse for the seeming but not real neglect . I thank you most sincerely for your polite notice of me , in the elegant lines you enclosed and however undeserving I may be of such encomium ...
... hope will apologize for the delay , and plead my excuse for the seeming but not real neglect . I thank you most sincerely for your polite notice of me , in the elegant lines you enclosed and however undeserving I may be of such encomium ...
Page 5652
... hope of preferment precarious , would remove one of the princi- pal springs of emulation , absolutely necessary to be upheld in an army . Besides this difficulty , the error we at first fell into , of prodigally bestowing rank upon ...
... hope of preferment precarious , would remove one of the princi- pal springs of emulation , absolutely necessary to be upheld in an army . Besides this difficulty , the error we at first fell into , of prodigally bestowing rank upon ...
Page 5653
... hope you merit it , in one or two of his letters to me speaks of the difficulty he is under to make you remittances . Whether this arises from the scantiness of his funds , or the extensiveness of your demands , is matter of conjecture ...
... hope you merit it , in one or two of his letters to me speaks of the difficulty he is under to make you remittances . Whether this arises from the scantiness of his funds , or the extensiveness of your demands , is matter of conjecture ...
Page 5668
... hope and an earnest wish , that you will come forward at the ensuing elections ( if not for Congress which you may think would take you too long from home ) , as a candidate for representative in the General Assembly of this ...
... hope and an earnest wish , that you will come forward at the ensuing elections ( if not for Congress which you may think would take you too long from home ) , as a candidate for representative in the General Assembly of this ...
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Page 5719 - Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And, as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return - and die at home at last.
Page 5670 - Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. — The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of Free Government. — Who that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ? — [Promote then as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
Page 5674 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ; so far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
Page 5672 - Sympathy for the favorite nation facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation...
Page 5675 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 5963 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 5669 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
Page 5803 - Yet, as if grieving to efface All vestige of the human race, On that lone shore loud moans the...
Page 5718 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 5966 - Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in Thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh the truth in his heart.