Speeches, Correspondence, Etc., of the Late Daniel S. Dickinson of New York: Including: Addresses on Important Public Topics: Speeches in the State and United States Senate, and in Support of the Government During the Rebellion; Correspondence, Private and Political (collected and Arranged by Mrs. Dickinson), Poems (collected and Arranged by Mrs. Mygatt), Etc, Volume 1G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1867 |
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Page 619 - did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke. How jocund did they drive their teams afield, How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke." "Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, or destiny obscure, Nor grandeur hear, with a
Page 371 - and tempests' roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea, Our hearts, our hopes are all with thee; Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with theo—are all with
Page 354 - of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the heathen parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together in a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof
Page 590 - brambles rode: Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain These constitute a State: And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 312 - on thy fate; We know what master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel; Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope.
Page 623 - attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my hook-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw. And as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first
Page 533 - the messenger of truth, there stands The legate of the skies ! His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out 'Its thunders; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispers peace. He 'stablishes the strong, restores the weak, Reclaims the
Page 540 - star obscured, but everywhere spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds as they float over the sea and over the land in every wind under the whole heavens, that
Page 275 - that they shall be subject to pay a part of the Federal debts, contracted or to be contracted, to be apportioned on them by Congress according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States.
Page 354 - constitutions, and offices from time to time as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.