Essays and Speeches of Jeremiah S. Black

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D. Appleton, 1885 - 621 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 76 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Pàgina 38 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every...
Pàgina 534 - Gird up thy loins now like a man ; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto Me.
Pàgina 224 - It has been solemnly adjudged by the highest judicial tribunal known to our laws that slavery exists in Kansas by virtue of the Constitution of the United States. Kansas is therefore at this moment as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina.
Pàgina 305 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not waged on our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States ; but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired ;...
Pàgina 222 - no person shall be deprived of his property except by due process of law," and that "private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation.
Pàgina 305 - That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunionists of the Southern States now in revolt against the constitutional Government and in arms around the capital...
Pàgina 525 - So in peaceable and quiet times our legal rights are in little danger of being overborne ; but when the wave of arbitrary power lashes itself into violence and rage, and goes surging up against the barriers which were made to confine it, then we need the whole strength of an unbroken constitution to save us from destruction.
Pàgina 53 - The manifest object of the men who framed the institutions of this country, was to have a State without religion, and a Church without politics...

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