American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses, by the Most Eminent Orators of America, Volume 2Frank Moore D. Appleton, 1859 |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página 38
... present condition of nations , and especially that of the inhabitants of our own continent , merits our watchful attention , and admonishes us to cherish our national re- sources , and seasonably to devise , and perse- veringly to build ...
... present condition of nations , and especially that of the inhabitants of our own continent , merits our watchful attention , and admonishes us to cherish our national re- sources , and seasonably to devise , and perse- veringly to build ...
Página 54
... present moment , they would not fail to do it ; and I am inclined to think that they will not make peace till they have tried the effect of all their force against us . An united , firm , and courageous resistance upon our part , alone ...
... present moment , they would not fail to do it ; and I am inclined to think that they will not make peace till they have tried the effect of all their force against us . An united , firm , and courageous resistance upon our part , alone ...
Página 56
... present we are no longer at liberty to pursue . The gentleman has wandered far , very far , from the points of the debate , and has extended his animadversions to all the prominent measures of the former administrations . In following ...
... present we are no longer at liberty to pursue . The gentleman has wandered far , very far , from the points of the debate , and has extended his animadversions to all the prominent measures of the former administrations . In following ...
Página 59
... present Carolina , two characters as pure , as honorable , only say further on this head , that we thought and exalted , as any the country can boast of , the reorganization of the judicial system an yet , I should have expected that he ...
... present Carolina , two characters as pure , as honorable , only say further on this head , that we thought and exalted , as any the country can boast of , the reorganization of the judicial system an yet , I should have expected that he ...
Página 62
... present bill , against the former administrations and our I shall endeavor to prove the expediency of the judges , of the most insidious tendency , which judicial law of the last session . In doing this , I know to be unfounded , and ...
... present bill , against the former administrations and our I shall endeavor to prove the expediency of the judges , of the most insidious tendency , which judicial law of the last session . In doing this , I know to be unfounded , and ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the ..., Volume 2 Visualização integral - 1857 |
American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses by the ..., Volume 2 Frank Moore Visualização integral - 1895 |
American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses by the Most ... Visualização integral - 1871 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Aaron Burr admit American argument authority believe belligerent Berlin decree bill Britain British Brown street cause character circuit circumstances citizens colonies commerce committed common law Congress consequence consider constitution contended crime Crownin debts declared defendant doctrine doubt duty effect embargo enemy England established Europe executive exist fact favor feel foreign France give Hartford Convention honorable gentleman honorable member hostile House important interest judges judicial jurisdiction justice Knapp land legislative legislature liberty Massachusetts means measure ment Missouri murder nation Nereide neutral never object occasion offence opinion orders in council party passed peace Pensacola persons political present President principle produce protection provision punishment purpose question republican respect Senate ships slavery slaves South Carolina Southwick Spain speech spirit supposed territory thing Thomas Nash tion trade treaty Union United vessels Virginia vote whole
Passagens conhecidas
Página 345 - We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of the 2 morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Página 368 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
Página 196 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 346 - ... repulse; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance; a thousand bosoms freely and fearlessly bared in an instant to whatever of terror there may be in war and death; all these you have witnessed, but you witness them no more. All is peace. The heights of yonder metropolis, its towers and roofs which you then saw filled with wives and...
Página 74 - That a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest Court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had...
Página 21 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Página 379 - He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstance to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth.
Página 44 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Página 377 - Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings; and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider, and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has been to us all a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness.
Página 346 - 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 dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and successful repulse; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance...