Plain Words to Young Men. by Augustus Woodbury.Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1858 - 252 |
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... give them a wider circulation , by embodying them in the present volume . The young men of Lowell , Mass . , will doubt- less recognize a portion of these Lectures as delivered in the Lee Street Church , in that city , a few years ago ...
... give them a wider circulation , by embodying them in the present volume . The young men of Lowell , Mass . , will doubt- less recognize a portion of these Lectures as delivered in the Lee Street Church , in that city , a few years ago ...
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... give new and stronger power to those forces , and employ them for the welfare of the race . " Old men for counsel , " says the proverb , " young men for action ! " The sage experience which has tested the various influences and powers ...
... give new and stronger power to those forces , and employ them for the welfare of the race . " Old men for counsel , " says the proverb , " young men for action ! " The sage experience which has tested the various influences and powers ...
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... give them the aid and sympathy which they require . Like Old Mortality , it gropes about among the tombs of a buried past , to renew their useless inscriptions , and re - build the monuments of men whom the world would be very glad to ...
... give them the aid and sympathy which they require . Like Old Mortality , it gropes about among the tombs of a buried past , to renew their useless inscriptions , and re - build the monuments of men whom the world would be very glad to ...
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... give the world assurance that this new continent rears a nation of free men , who are distin- guished for all the virtues of a Christian civilization . Let us cast off our reproach , and be true to the great ideas of our national life ...
... give the world assurance that this new continent rears a nation of free men , who are distin- guished for all the virtues of a Christian civilization . Let us cast off our reproach , and be true to the great ideas of our national life ...
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... gives intemperance such a dreadful character is , in most part , that it degrades and de- stroys home . What is one of the worst features of Slavery is , that it separates families , makes the mar- riage tie depend simply upon custom ...
... gives intemperance such a dreadful character is , in most part , that it degrades and de- stroys home . What is one of the worst features of Slavery is , that it separates families , makes the mar- riage tie depend simply upon custom ...
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Strona 96 - Merciful Heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle. 0 but man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep.
Strona 204 - 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.
Strona 110 - A king might wish to hold in fee. O rich man's son! there is a toil That with all others level stands; Large charity doth never soil, But only whiten, soft white hands, — • This is the best crop from thy lands; A heritage, it seems to me, Worth being rich to hold in fee.
Strona 23 - I cannot hide that some have striven, Achieving calm, to whom was given The joy that mixes man with Heaven : " Who, rowing hard against the stream, Saw distant gates of Eden gleam, And did not dream it was a dream...
Strona 205 - Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
Strona 55 - He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly, unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.