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... statesmen . Overwhelmed as they constantly are with a mass of routine work , which must be got through ; and having literally to fight their way inch by inch against a host of antagonists , whose sole business is antagonism ; knowing ...
... statesmen . Overwhelmed as they constantly are with a mass of routine work , which must be got through ; and having literally to fight their way inch by inch against a host of antagonists , whose sole business is antagonism ; knowing ...
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... statesmen not only of a high but of a peculiar order of talent ; and as these calls increase and enlarge we require both more numerous and more able statesmen . Already it is felt that the work in every public department is augmenting ...
... statesmen not only of a high but of a peculiar order of talent ; and as these calls increase and enlarge we require both more numerous and more able statesmen . Already it is felt that the work in every public department is augmenting ...
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... statesmen adapted to the functions and equal to the necessities of their position ? Perhaps there has never been a period in our recent history where so poor a present had the prospect of being succeeded by a still poorer future ...
... statesmen adapted to the functions and equal to the necessities of their position ? Perhaps there has never been a period in our recent history where so poor a present had the prospect of being succeeded by a still poorer future ...
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... statesmen of the second rank . It is in this class that our poverty is most apparent . It affords only three men ... statesman to act as he deems right , because more exempt than any other from embarrassing antecedents ; and the ...
... statesmen of the second rank . It is in this class that our poverty is most apparent . It affords only three men ... statesman to act as he deems right , because more exempt than any other from embarrassing antecedents ; and the ...
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... statesman can scarcely be hoped for from a man who is too impatient to listen , and too proud to learn . It may ... statesmen . Lord Carlisle , though he has been a laborious and most useful minister in his day , and though his ...
... statesman can scarcely be hoped for from a man who is too impatient to listen , and too proud to learn . It may ... statesmen . Lord Carlisle , though he has been a laborious and most useful minister in his day , and though his ...
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Page 398 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 405 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master, whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster, till his songs one burden bore, — Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of "Never — nevermore.
Page 397 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Page 404 - I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Page 397 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 405 - For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door, Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.
Page 398 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 406 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting: "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! 100 Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 404 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 388 - Brought in the olden time from France, and since, as an heirloom, Handed down from mother to child, through long generations. But a celestial brightness — a more ethereal beauty — Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her, When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.