Landmarks of Liberty: The Growth of American Political Ideals as Recorded in Speeches from Otis to WilsonRobert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920 - 267 páginas |
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... seemed for the moment inclined to consider a gentler policy , Burke seized the opportunity to offer , on March 22 , 1775 , conciliatory resolutions that met adequately nearly all the constitutional demands of the - colonists . The ...
... seemed for the moment inclined to consider a gentler policy , Burke seized the opportunity to offer , on March 22 , 1775 , conciliatory resolutions that met adequately nearly all the constitutional demands of the - colonists . The ...
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... seemed so very exceptionable , have instituted a mode that is altogether new ; one that is , indeed , wholly alien from all the ancient methods and forms of Parliament . The principle of this proceeding is large enough for my purpose ...
... seemed so very exceptionable , have instituted a mode that is altogether new ; one that is , indeed , wholly alien from all the ancient methods and forms of Parliament . The principle of this proceeding is large enough for my purpose ...
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... seemed even to excite your envy , and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather , in my opinion , to have raised your esteem and admiration . And pray , Sir , what in the world is equal to it ...
... seemed even to excite your envy , and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather , in my opinion , to have raised your esteem and admiration . And pray , Sir , what in the world is equal to it ...
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... seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition , is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry . Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated ...
... seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition , is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry . Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated ...
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... seemed to quiver on every lip ; their souls were on fire for action . Tyler says , " Henry rose with an unearthly fire burning in his eye . He commenced somewhat calmly , but the smothered ex- citement began more and more to play upon ...
... seemed to quiver on every lip ; their souls were on fire for action . Tyler says , " Henry rose with an unearthly fire burning in his eye . He commenced somewhat calmly , but the smothered ex- citement began more and more to play upon ...
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Página 139 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 140 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among...
Página 135 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Página 82 - It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's government; made for the people; made by the people ; and answerable to the people.
Página 57 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
Página 48 - ... the great contexture of this mysterious whole. These things do not make your government. Dead instruments, passive tools as they are, it is the spirit of the English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English Constitution, which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Página 30 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Página 178 - On the third of February last I officially laid before you the extraordinary announcement of the Imperial German Government that on and after the first day of February it was its purpose to put aside all restraints of law or of humanity and use its submarines to sink every vessel that sought to approach either the ports of Great Britain and Ireland, or the western coasts of Europe, or any of the ports controlled by the enemies of Germany within the Mediterranean.
Página 66 - VENERABLE MEN! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your 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...
Página 26 - ... of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace; sought in its natural course, and in its ordinary haunts. — It is peace sought in the spirit of peace ; and laid in principles purely pacific.