Substance and Show: And Other LecturesHoughton, Osgood, 1877 - 434 Seiten |
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Substance and Show, and Other Lectures (Classic Reprint) Thomas Starr King Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Æschylus Alcibiades artist Athenian Athens beauty believe Bishop Berkeley bishops blue-fish body Calhoun called century character church civilization Cluny color Constitution Crito Daniel Webster delight Demosthenes Divine doctrine earth eloquence emperor England Ezekiel facts faculties faith feel forces Fryeburg genius globe hear heart heaven Hildebrand holy human hundred idea Iliad imagination immense insight intellect King labor land lecture light literature live look majestic matter ment mental mighty mind moral nation nature never noble once organization passion patriotism person Phidias planet Plato poet pope principles race reverence Rhadamanthus rich Rome Saxon secession seemed sense sentiment social society Socrates solar system soul South Carolina speech spirit stand stars stoicism strength substance talk tell things thought thousand tion truth ture universe uttered Webster whole wisdom words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 393 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Seite 386 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Seite 351 - I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
Seite 429 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite 301 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Seite 62 - If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
Seite 334 - The Union : next to our Liberty the most dear: may we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefit and burden of the Union...
Seite 338 - Look on this picture of happiness and honor and say, We too are citizens of America. Carolina is one of these proud States; her arms have defended, her best blood has cemented, this happy Union. And then add, if you can, without horror and remorse, This happy Union we will dissolve; this picture of peace and prosperity we will deface; this free intercourse we will interrupt; these fertile fields we will deluge with blood; the protection of that glorious flag we renounce; the very name of Americans...
Seite 325 - VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed!
Seite 102 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.