The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volum 5

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Brann Publishers, Incorporated, 1919
 

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Pàgina 186 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Pàgina 149 - Planets and suns run lawless through the sky; Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurl'd, Being on being wreck'd, and world on world; Heaven's whole foundations to their centre nod, And Nature tremble to the throne of God. All this dread order break — for whom? for thee? Vile worm! — Oh, madness! pride! impiety!
Pàgina 26 - In every act and thought he had borne witness to the eternal truth that "it is better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all" — better to have fought and lost than not to have fought at all.
Pàgina 238 - But no nation, however desirous of peace, can hope to escape collisions with other powers; and the soundest dictates of policy require that we should place ourselves in a condition to assert our rights, if a resort to force should ever become necessary. Our local situation, our long line of sea-coast, indented by numerous bays, with deep rivers opening...
Pàgina 306 - Render unto Caesar the things that are Cassar's and unto God the things that are God's.
Pàgina 238 - ... a condition to assert our rights if a resort to force should ever become necessary. Our local situation, our long line of seacoast, indented by numerous bays, with deep rivers opening into the interior, as well as our extended and still increasing commerce, point to the Navy as our natural means of defense.
Pàgina 231 - We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage...
Pàgina 302 - Romanism" may claim what it likes in matters theological, and "Lutherism" deny it until the crack o' doom for aught I care. I concern myself only with their deeds, leaving to others the disputation anent the respective merits of their creeds. Pope expresses my sentiments exactly when he says: "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Pàgina 237 - I trust, has been done towards the accomplishment of this most desirable object. But enough yet remains to require all your energy and perseverance. The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it. While I am thus endeavoring to press upon your attention the principles which I deem of vital importance...
Pàgina 238 - It is impossible by any line of fortifications to guard every point from attack against a hostile force advancing from the ocean and selecting its object, but they are indispensable to protect cities from bombardment, dockyards and naval arsenals from destruction, to give shelter to merchant vessels in time of war and to single ships or weaker squadrons when pressed by superior force.

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