Southwestern Journal of Education, Bind 5

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Wheeler & Osborn, 1887

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Side 212 - vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them, and me, repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
Side 10 - swift, nor the battle to the strong neither, yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Side 12 - seems to have been known away beyond the memory of the oldest inhabitant, for the prophet Jeremiah uses the expression, "written with a pen of iron and with the point of a diamond." Of ink a poet has said: "Hard that
Side 56 - he sit down in sullenness and despair? Not for a day. Surely God, who had scourged him in his prosperity, inspired him in his adversity ! As ruin was never before so overwhelming, never was restoration swifter. The soldier stepped from the trenches into the furrow ; horses that charged federal guns marched before the plow, and fields that
Side 173 - thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve пае ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a song, Perhaps turn out a
Side 120 - Cracked amain ! Now like smiths at their forges Worked the red St. George's Cannoniers; And the villainous "saltpeter" Rang a fierce, discordant meter Round their ears; As the swift Storm drift, With hot, sweeping anger, came the horseguards' clangor On our flanks. Then higher, higher, higher, burned the ' old-fashioned fire Through the ranks ! Then the
Side 56 - What answer has New England to this message? Will she permit the prejudice of war to remain in the hearts of the conquerors when it has died in the hearts of the conquered ? Will she transmit this prejudice to the next generation, that in hearts which never felt the generous ardor of conflict it may
Side 125 - Books are yours, Within whose silent chamber treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The sultan hides within ancestral tombs; These hoards of truth you can unlock at will.— Wordsworth,
Side 212 - (2) I do not fear to approach the Omnipotent Judge, to answer for the conduct of my whole life; and am I to be appalled and falsified by a mere remnant of mortality here? By you, too, who, if it were possible to collect all the innocent blood that you have shed
Side 56 - its refusal. But if she does not refuse to accept in frankness and sincerity this message of good will and friendship, then will the prophecy of Webster, delivered to this very society forty years ago amid tremendous applause, be verified in its fullest and final sense, when

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