Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Volumen7Mayo Williamson Hazeltine P. F. Collier & Son, 1905 - 11114 páginas |
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Página 2717 - endeavored to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between the king and people; and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne
Página 2641 - up and putteth down the empires and kingdoms of the world as he pleases; and with cheerful submission to his sovereign will devoutly say, " Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the field shall yield no meat; the flock shall
Página 2733 - those associated with you, I look with encouragement for that guidance and support which may enable us to steer with safety the vessel in which we are all embarked, amid the conflicting elements of a troubled world. During the contest of opinion through which we
Página 2782 - ever consent to establish in that country a religion that has deluged your island in blood and dispersed impiety, bigotry, persecution, murder, and rebellion through every part of the world. This being a true state of facts, let us beseech you to
Página 2784 - as our enemies and your interest as our own. But if you are determined that your ministers shall wantonly sport with the rights of mankind; if neither the voice of justice, the dictates of the law, the principles of the constitution, or the suggestions of humanity, can restrain your hands from shedding human blood in such
Página 2733 - reach of mortal eye; when I contemplate these transcendent objects, and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue and the auspices of this day, I shrink from the contemplation,
Página 3051 - much about it? Why not all agreed, as you can all read the book? Brother, we do not understand these things. We are told that your religion was given to your forefathers and lias been handed down from father to son. We also
Página 3036 - assigned me with no other discouragement than what springs from my own inadequacy to its high duties. If I do not sink under the weight of this deep conviction it is because I find some support in a consciousness of the purposes and a confidence in the principles which I bring with me into this arduous
Página 3052 - this is all we have to say at present. As we are going to part, we will come and take you by the hand, and hope the Great Spirit will protect you on your journey, and return you safe to your friends.^/
Página 2976 - daughter, Sarah, was secretly betrothed to the young patriot Emmet, who was executed for his share in the rising of 1803, and to her are addressed Moore's lines, " She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps." When the Whigs came into power in 1806,