The American Spirit: A Basis for World Democracy

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Paul Monroe, Irving Elgar Miller
World book Company, 1918 - 336 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 40 - Morality enjoin, this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? — It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. . . . Harmony,
الصفحة 103 - What constitutes a State ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall, or moated gate; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride; No: — MEN ! high-minded men, Men who their duties
الصفحة 124 - pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, (As come it will for a' that) That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth, Shall bear the gree, 3 an' a' that. For a' that, an' a
الصفحة 171 - Heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!" And the Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave O'er the
الصفحة 123 - for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden gray an' a' that ? Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine — A man's a man for a' -that. For a' that, an' a' that, Their tinsel show, an' a' that: The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor, Is king o' men for a
الصفحة 43 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
الصفحة 123 - ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796) Is there for honest poverty That hings his head, an' a' that ? The coward slave, we pass him by, — We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, an' a' that, Our toils obscure, an' a' that, The rank is but the guinea's
الصفحة 67 - My Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much. ... As to conquest, therefore, my Lords, I repeat, it is impossible. You may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly; pile
الصفحة 104 - baseness wafts perfume to pride; No: — MEN ! high-minded men, Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain: These constitute a State.
الصفحة 31 - Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great; Where neither guilty glory glows, Nor despicable state ? Yes — one — the first — the last — the best — The Cincinnatus of the West, Whom envy dared not hate, Bequeathed the name of WASHINGTON, To make man blush there was but one I

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