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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... speak out in any tongue , and the world will hear it . A great chord of sentiment and feeling runs through two continents , and vibrates over both . Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country ; every wave rolls it ; all ...
... speak out in any tongue , and the world will hear it . A great chord of sentiment and feeling runs through two continents , and vibrates over both . Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country ; every wave rolls it ; all ...
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... speaking , mankind are not only better fed and better clothed , but they are able also to enjoy more leisure ; they possess more refinement and more self - respect . Α superior tone of education , manners , and habits prevails . This ...
... speaking , mankind are not only better fed and better clothed , but they are able also to enjoy more leisure ; they possess more refinement and more self - respect . Α superior tone of education , manners , and habits prevails . This ...
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... speak out , they demand it ; where the bayonet is at their throats , they pray for it . When Louis XIV . said : " I am the State , " he expressed the essence of the doctrine of unlimited power . By the rules of that system , the people ...
... speak out , they demand it ; where the bayonet is at their throats , they pray for it . When Louis XIV . said : " I am the State , " he expressed the essence of the doctrine of unlimited power . By the rules of that system , the people ...
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... speaking image of the departed dead to the senses of the living . This belongs to poetry , only because it is congenial to our nature . Poetry is , in this respect , but the handmaid of true philosophy and morality ; it deals with us as ...
... speaking image of the departed dead to the senses of the living . This belongs to poetry , only because it is congenial to our nature . Poetry is , in this respect , but the handmaid of true philosophy and morality ; it deals with us as ...
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... speak to us , ' on that day , of the virtues of our fathers , had , indeed , admon- ished us that time and years were about to level his vener- able frame with the dust . But he bade us hope that " the sound of a nation's joy , rushing ...
... speak to us , ' on that day , of the virtues of our fathers , had , indeed , admon- ished us that time and years were about to level his vener- able frame with the dust . But he bade us hope that " the sound of a nation's joy , rushing ...
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Library of Universal Literature: In Four Parts, Comprising Science ..., Volumen7 Vista completa - 1900 |
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admitted adopted American annexation appointed Articles of Confederation authority Brown Street cause character charity charter Colman Colonies compact Confederation Congress Constitution Convention corporation court Crownin Dartmouth College Declaration doubt duty established execution exercise existing fact feel fellow citizens Frank Knapp gentlemen George Crowninshield grant Hampshire honor hope House human important John Adams judge judgment land lature learned legislative Legislature liberty live Massachusetts means ment Mexico murder nature North nullification object occasion opinion ordinance party passed patriotic peace persons political present President principles prisoner privileges prove purpose question regard resolution respect Richard Crowninshield secession Senate sentiments slave slavery South Carolina sovereign sovereign communities speak stand stitution suppose tariff of 1816 territory Texas things tion trustees Union United Virginia vote whole Wilmot Proviso witness Ye men
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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.