Recollections of John Howard RedfieldMorris Press, 1900 - 360 էջ |
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Էջ 226 - ... behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood: Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the Earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased...
Էջ vi - O God, thou hast taught me from my youth : And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not ; Until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, And thy power to every one that is to come.
Էջ 227 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Էջ 211 - But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days"(Damel 12:9-13).
Էջ 230 - Sketch of the Geographical Rout of a Great Railway, by which it is proposed to connect the canals and navigable waters of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, and the adjacent States and Territories opening thereby a free communication at all seasons of the year, between the Atlantic States and the Great Valley of the Mississippi. New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830.
Էջ 286 - And, therefore, I am silent. It remains To bless the hour the Corporation took it Into their heads to give the rich in brains, The worn-out mansion of the poor in pocket, Once "the old almshouse,
Էջ 286 - There's music in the forest leaves When summer winds are there, And in the laugh of forest girls That braid their sunny hair. The first wild bird that drinks the dew From violets of the spring, Has music in his song, and in The fluttering of his wing.
Էջ 344 - For Tippecanoe and Tyler too — Tippecanoe and Tyler too, And with them we'll beat little Van, Van, Van, Van is a used up man, And with them we'll beat little Van.
Էջ 227 - ... high advanced," — its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, — not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured ; bearing, for its motto, no such miserable interrogatory as,
Էջ 299 - On three several Hurricanes of the American Seas, and their relation to the Northers so called of the Gulf of Mexico and the Bay of Honduras, with Charts illustrating the same.