Deutsch-amerikanische Monatschefte für Literatur, Kunst, Wissenschaft und öffentliches Leben ..., Volume 1

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Caspar Butz
1864
 

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Page 353 - When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee, And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones, Is it peace or war ? better, war! loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones.
Page 512 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 31 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part deform'd With dripping rains, or wither'd by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage and her myrtle bowers.
Page 352 - Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie; Peace in her vineyard - yes!
Page 376 - Gems of thought set upon some of the most important subjects that can engage the attention of men.
Page 434 - ... tis comfortable to think that — Justum et tenacem propositi virum, Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni Mente quatit solida . . . Si fractus illabatur orbis Impavidum ferient ruinoe.
Page 31 - ... our removal to the coast of Africa ; and we view them as wholly gratuitous, not called for by us, and in no way essential to the welfare of our race ; and we believe that our condition can be best improved in this our own country and native , soil, the United States of America. Resolved, That we hold this truth to be self-evident, that all men are born free and equal ; and we are men, and therefore ought to share as much protection and enjoy as many privileges under our federal government as...
Page 235 - QUE TÔT ou TARD ON FINIRAIT PAR TROUVER DANS LE DILUVIUM, A DÉFAUT DE FOSSILES HUMAINS, DES TRACES D'HOMMES ANTÉDILUVIENS.

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