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Page 24 - are granted by them and are to be exercised on them and for their benefit. The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land.
Page 192 - Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. A craven hung along the battle's edge, And thought, " Had Ia sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears, — but this Blunt thing— ! " he snapped and flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away and left the
Page 271 - Christmas Bells. I heard the bells of Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play : And mild and sweet Their words repeat Of peace on earth, good will to men ! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth, good will to men ! —Longfellow.
Page 80 - up the street. For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door, And Leerie stops to light it, as he lights so many more. And O! before you hurry by with ladder and with light, O! Leerie, see a little child, and nod to him to-night.
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Page 15 - With light, and air, and food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have hardened into wood, That to the world are children; Through them it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate, That reaches the
Page 44 - to coral where they trod Held by his awe in hollow-eved content. Modest, yet firm as nature's self, unblamed Save by the men his nobler nature shamed. Not honored then or now because he wooed , The popular voice, but that he still withstood ; Broad-minded, high-souled, there is but one, Who was all theirs and ours, and all men's— Washington
Page 81 - yesterday. When he wrote long years after— The coach Is at the door at last. The eager children mounting fast, And, kissing hands, in chorus sing "Good-bye, good-bye to everything!" To house and garden, field and lawn, The meadow gates we swung upon, To pumps and stable, well and swing, "Good-bye, good-bye to everything!
Page 8 - come he desired to be found at his place doing his duty, and, therefore, moved that candles be brought in so that the House could proceed with its duty. " There was quietness in that man's mind—the quietness of heavenly wisdom—an inflexible willingness to obey present duty. Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in
Page 58 - with goblin troopers is likely to have a rough riding of it ; " Ergo, for a country schoolmaster to be refused the hand of a Dutch heiress, is a certain step to high preferment in the State." The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism ; while, methought, the one in