The Lincoln Legion: The Story of Its Founder and ForerunnersMershon Company, 1903 - 256 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 65 - And while the lamp holds out to burn The vilest sinner may return.
Σελίδα 71 - ... .Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Σελίδα 143 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God...
Σελίδα 172 - In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.
Σελίδα 143 - Which executeth judgment for the oppressed : Which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners : The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind : The Lord raiseth them that are bowed down : The Lord loveth the righteous...
Σελίδα 10 - ... who stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended within himself all the strength and gentleness, all the majesty and grace of this republic, Abraham Lincoln.
Σελίδα 74 - Washington is the mightiest name of earth — long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.
Σελίδα 69 - ... actions, the strong inclination each of us feels to do as we see all our neighbors do? Nor is the influence of fashion confined to any particular thing or class of things. It is just as strong on one subject as another. Let us make it as unfashionable to withhold our names from the temperance pledge as for husbands to wear their wives' bonnets to church, and instances will be just as rare in the one case as the other.
Σελίδα 70 - ... surely they will not refuse submission to the infinitely lesser condescension for the temporal and perhaps eternal salvation of a large, erring, and unfortunate class of their fellow-creatures.
Σελίδα 63 - Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity ; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us ; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.