American Oratory: Or Selections from the Speeches of Eminent AmericansE.C. & J. Biddle, 1854 - 531 páginas |
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... important question , I am actuated by a regard for what I conceive to be our true in terest . I can also , with equal sincerity , declare that I would join heart and hand in rejecting this system , did I conceive it would promote our ...
... important question , I am actuated by a regard for what I conceive to be our true in terest . I can also , with equal sincerity , declare that I would join heart and hand in rejecting this system , did I conceive it would promote our ...
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... important figure ? What part deserves to be retained ? In it , one body has the legis- lative , executive and judicial powers ; but the want of efficient powers has prevented the dangers naturally consequent on the union of these . Is ...
... important figure ? What part deserves to be retained ? In it , one body has the legis- lative , executive and judicial powers ; but the want of efficient powers has prevented the dangers naturally consequent on the union of these . Is ...
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... important question . That government is no more than a choice among evils , is acknowledged by the most intelligent among mankind , and has been a standing maxim for ages . If it be de- monstrated , that the adoption of the new plan is ...
... important question . That government is no more than a choice among evils , is acknowledged by the most intelligent among mankind , and has been a standing maxim for ages . If it be de- monstrated , that the adoption of the new plan is ...
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... important , and so awful a change , in so precipitate a manner ? As to insults offered to the laws , I know of none . In this respect , I believe this commonwealth would not suffer by a comparison with the for- mer government . The laws ...
... important , and so awful a change , in so precipitate a manner ? As to insults offered to the laws , I know of none . In this respect , I believe this commonwealth would not suffer by a comparison with the for- mer government . The laws ...
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... importance than those of Virginia , stood the terror of war . Vermont , sir , withstood the terror of thirteen states . Maryland ... important , and give not a moment's deliberation to others , nor pay any respect 56 MR . HENRY'S SPEECH ON.
... importance than those of Virginia , stood the terror of war . Vermont , sir , withstood the terror of thirteen states . Maryland ... important , and give not a moment's deliberation to others , nor pay any respect 56 MR . HENRY'S SPEECH ON.
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American Oratory: Or, Selections from the Speeches of Eminent Americans ... Richard Waite Visualização integral - 1845 |
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Página 15 - Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Página 15 - The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace! peace!
Página 442 - A spirit pervaded all ranks, not transient, not boisterous, but deep, solemn, determined, "totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet.
Página 300 - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Página 490 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Página 21 - ... of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety...
Página 14 - We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded, and we have been -spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne ! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation.
Página 14 - These are the implements of war and subjugation ; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask geattatnein, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission ? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it ? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies ? No, sir, she has none.
Página 14 - We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty...
Página 198 - 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...