The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Volume 16, Issues 46-48Kentucky State Historical Society, 1918 - Kentucky |
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Page 99 - possum and the coon, On the meadow, the hill, and the shore ; They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon, On the bench by the old cabin door.
Page 99 - Weep no more my lady, Oh! weep no more today! We will sing one song For the old Kentucky Home, For the old Kentucky Home, far away.
Page 36 - Who are parties to it ? The people — but not the people as composing one great body; but the people as composing thirteen sovereignties...
Page 70 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 173 - When I should be her lover forever and a day, And she my faithful sweetheart till the golden hair was gray; And we should be so happy that when either's lips were dumb They would not smile in Heaven till the other's kiss had come. ******* But, ah! my dream is broken by a step upon the stair, And the door is softly opened, and — my wife is standing there; Yet with eagerness and rapture all my visions I resign To greet the living presence of that old sweetheart of mine.
Page 40 - Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Page 33 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 34 - ... and give to its popular branch equality of representation, and it would be the most perfect constitution ever devised by the wit of man.' Hamilton paused and said, ' Purge it of its corruption, and give to its popular branch equality of representation, and it would become an impracticable government ; as it stands at present, with all its supposed defects, it is the most perfect government which ever existed.
Page 38 - No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass; Of consequence, when they act, they act in their States.
Page 45 - Tis not so large as Tottenham Court. St. Mary's once was in repute, Now here the Judges try the Suit, And lawyers twice a Year dispute. As oft the Bench most gravely meet, Some to get Drunk, and some to eat A swinging share of Country Treat.