A Library of Universal Literature: In 4 Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations. Pt.3: Orations, Volumen7Collier, 1900 |
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... Massachusetts . HON . JOHN R. PROCTOR , President U. S. Civil Service Commission . MORRIS HICKEY MORGAN , Ph.D. , LL.D. , Professor in Latin , Har- vard University . 7 PN 6121 L5 v . 7 A LIBRARY OF UNIVERSAL LITERATURE ORATIONS VOLUME ...
... Massachusetts . HON . JOHN R. PROCTOR , President U. S. Civil Service Commission . MORRIS HICKEY MORGAN , Ph.D. , LL.D. , Professor in Latin , Har- vard University . 7 PN 6121 L5 v . 7 A LIBRARY OF UNIVERSAL LITERATURE ORATIONS VOLUME ...
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... Massachusetts and the town of Boston had become early and marked objects of the displeasure of the British Parliament . This had been manifested in the act for altering the government of the Province , and in that for shutting up the ...
... Massachusetts and the town of Boston had become early and marked objects of the displeasure of the British Parliament . This had been manifested in the act for altering the government of the Province , and in that for shutting up the ...
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... Massachusetts , the other seaports would be governed by a more spirit of gain ; and that , as Boston was now cut off from all commerce , the unexpected advantage which this blow on her was calculated to confer on other towns would be ...
... Massachusetts , the other seaports would be governed by a more spirit of gain ; and that , as Boston was now cut off from all commerce , the unexpected advantage which this blow on her was calculated to confer on other towns would be ...
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... Massachusetts responded to these assurances ; and in an address to the Congress at Philadelphia , bearing the official signature , perhaps among the last of the im- mortal Warren , notwithstanding the severity of its suffer- ing and the ...
... Massachusetts responded to these assurances ; and in an address to the Congress at Philadelphia , bearing the official signature , perhaps among the last of the im- mortal Warren , notwithstanding the severity of its suffer- ing and the ...
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... Massachusetts . Discovering in childhood a strong love of reading and of knowledge , together with marks of great strength and activity of mind , proper care was taken by his worthy father to provide for his education . He pursued his ...
... Massachusetts . Discovering in childhood a strong love of reading and of knowledge , together with marks of great strength and activity of mind , proper care was taken by his worthy father to provide for his education . He pursued his ...
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Página 213 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Página 57 - If we fail, it can be no worse for us. But we shall not fail. The cause will raise up armies ; the cause will create navies. The people, the people, if we are true to them, will carry us, and will carry themselves, gloriously, through this struggle. I care not how fickle other people have been found. I know the people of these colonies, and I know that resistance to British aggression is deep and settled in their hearts and cannot be eradicated.
Página 112 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Página 145 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Página 309 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Página 83 - Canada, acceding to this Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Página 7 - ... country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else, how changed! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the...
Página 8 - He has allowed you to behold and to partake the reward of your patriotic toils; and he has allowed us, your sons and countrymen, to meet you here, and in the name of the present generation, in the name of your country, in the name of liberty, to thank you!
Página 305 - Upon principle, every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect to transactions or considerations already past, must be deemed retrospective.
Página 53 - Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.