Political EssaysHoughton, Mifflin, 1888 - 326 strani |
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Stran 161 - You bid me make it orderly and well, According to the fashion and the time." Gen. McC. " Marry, I did ; but, if you be remembered, I did not bid you mar it to the time.
Stran 111 - light, and he would be sure of the sympathy of all right-minded men in so doing ; but an ex parte statement at once rouses and justifies adverse criticism. He has omitted many documents essential to the formation of a just opinion ; and it is only when we have read these also, in the
Stran 172 - through the open shop (If tails came off he did not care a feather) ; Then, walking to the door and smiling grim, He rubbed his forehead and his sleeve together, —
Stran 278 - of the country to the other instinctively to our side, with more than ample means of present succor and of final triumph. It is only by being loyal and helpful to Truth that men learn at last how loyal and helpful she can be to them.
Stran 230 - Few men have any great amount of gathered wisdom, still fewer of extemporary, while there are unhappily many who have a large stock of accumulated phrases, and hold their parts of speech subject to immediate draft. In a country where the party newspapers and speakers have done their best to make us
Stran 297 - revolt from the mother country, are most hostile to the genius of our institutions, and soonest sap the energy and corrode the morals of a people. It is through its politics, through its capacity for government, the noblest of all sciences, that a
Stran 52 - Events have been gradually convincing them that the peril was actual and near. They begin to see how unwise, if nothing worse, has been the weak policy of the Executive in allowing men to play at Revolution till they learn to think the coarse reality as easy and pretty as the vaudeville they have been acting. They are fast
Stran 280 - The hues of our dawn had scarcely faded from the sky. Men were still living who had seen the face and heard the voice of the most august personage in our history, and of others scarce less august than he. The traditions of our founders were fresh. Our growth in wealth and power was without precedent. We had been so
Stran 284 - of theory, no fruit of forethought, no trophy of insurgent violence, but a pure evolution from the nature of man in a perfectly free medium. The essential triumph was achieved in this tacit recognition of a certain privilege and adequacy in mere manhood, and democracy may be said to have succeeded before it was accepted as doctrine or embodied as a political fact.
Stran 13 - though its title-deeds go back to the days of Sodom, is by nature a thing of yesterday, — while the right, of which we became conscious but an hour ago, is more ancient than the stars, and of the essence of Heaven. If it were proposed to establish Slavery to-morrow, should we have more patience with its patriarchal argument than with the parallel claim of