A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians: Georgia in the realm of anecdote, wit, humor, episode and incident ; Georgia in the forum of eloquence ; Georgia in the republic of letters ; Georgia songs ; Georgia, the Empire State of todayLewis publishing Company, 1917 |
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1709 psl.
... Alas , for the poor to have some part , In yon sweet living land of art . ' " " His song and his life are a splendid lesson for this needy time . The lesson that to be and to know are greater than to get and to have . He has enriched ...
... Alas , for the poor to have some part , In yon sweet living land of art . ' " " His song and his life are a splendid lesson for this needy time . The lesson that to be and to know are greater than to get and to have . He has enriched ...
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Georgia in the realm of anecdote, wit, humor, episode and incident ; Georgia ... Lucian Lamar Knight Visos knygos peržiūra - 1917 |
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1296 psl. - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere Home ! home ! sweet, sweet home ! There's no place like home...
1706 psl. - Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules ; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said : "Now must we pray, For lo ! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say...
1652 psl. - I shall correct the procedure ; but that done, return with joy to that state of things, when the only questions concerning a candidate shall be, is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? I tender you the homage of my high respect.
1654 psl. - ... believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration.
1579 psl. - There was a South of slavery and secession— that South is dead. There is a South of union and freedom — that South, thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour." These words, delivered from the immortal lips of Benjamin H. Hill, at Tammany Hall, in 1866, true then and truer now, I shall make my text to-night.
1597 psl. - The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea, And Wickliffe's dust shall spread abroad, Wide as the waters be.
1661 psl. - States, or to deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, or to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...
1584 psl. - It must be left to those among whom his lot is cast, with whom he is indissolubly connected, and whose prosperity depends upon their possessing his intelligent sympathy and confidence. Faith has been kept with him, in spite of calumnious assertions to the contrary by those who assume to speak for us or by frank opponents. Faith will be kept with him in the future, if the South holds her reason and integrity.
1314 psl. - Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works : 15 Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.
1708 psl. - Downward, to toil and be mixed with the main. The dry fields burn, and the mills are to turn, And a myriad flowers mortally yearn, And the lordly main from beyond the plain Calls o'er the hills of Habersham, Calls through the valleys of Hall.