The Most Eminent Orators and Statesmen of Ancient and Modern Times: Containing Sketches of Their Lives, Specimens of Their Eloquence, and an Estimate of Their GeniusCharles Scribner, 1857 - 518 páginas |
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... senate . The people were in- stantly collected , and before any regular authority could convene their assembly , the whole body of citizens had taken their places above . Then the senate entered ; the presidents reported their advices ...
... senate . The people were in- stantly collected , and before any regular authority could convene their assembly , the whole body of citizens had taken their places above . Then the senate entered ; the presidents reported their advices ...
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... senators and citizens . Cicero , by his vigi- lance , having discovered their infernal design , summoned the senate to meet in the temple of Jupiter , † in the Capitol , that he might lay before it the whole circumstance of the deep ...
... senators and citizens . Cicero , by his vigi- lance , having discovered their infernal design , summoned the senate to meet in the temple of Jupiter , † in the Capitol , that he might lay before it the whole circumstance of the deep ...
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... senate in this most defensible place — do not the looks and countenances of this venerable body here present , have any effect upon you ? Do you not feel that your plans are detected ? Do you not see that your conspiracy is already ...
... senate in this most defensible place — do not the looks and countenances of this venerable body here present , have any effect upon you ? Do you not feel that your plans are detected ? Do you not see that your conspiracy is already ...
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... senate - planning every day some internal injury to the republic . If , O Catiline , I should now order you to be arrested , to be put to death , I should , I suppose , have to fear lest all good men should say that I had acted tardily ...
... senate - planning every day some internal injury to the republic . If , O Catiline , I should now order you to be arrested , to be put to death , I should , I suppose , have to fear lest all good men should say that I had acted tardily ...
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... senate- house with swords , to prepare brands and torches to burn the city ; let it , in short , be written on the brow of every citizen , what are his sentiments about the republic . I promise you this , O conscript fathers , that ...
... senate- house with swords , to prepare brands and torches to burn the city ; let it , in short , be written on the brow of every citizen , what are his sentiments about the republic . I promise you this , O conscript fathers , that ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration American ancient argument arms Athenians Athens audience beautiful brilliant British Brougham Burke burst Calhoun Catiline cause celebrated character charm Cicero Clay countenance Daniel Webster debate declared delight delivered Demosthenes Edmund Burke effect effort eloquence eminent England Erskine Everett excited expression feelings force friends genius glorious glory glowing graceful Grattan greatest Greece heard hearers heart heaven Henry highest honor House House of Commons House of Lords human immortal intellectual language liberty live lofty Lord Brougham Lord Chatham Lord North manner ment mind nation nature never noble occasion orator oratory Parliament passages passions Patrick Henry patriotic Pitt political President principles quence remarkable resolution Roman Rufus Choate scene seemed Senate sentiments Sheridan speak speaker speech spirit splendor statesman style sublime thing thought tion tones uttered vehement voice Warren Hastings Webster whole words
Passagens conhecidas
Página 153 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy.
Página 154 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Página 320 - Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third " "Treason ! " cried the speaker, John Robinson, and " Treason 1 treason ! " re-echoed from every part of the house.
Página 470 - Liberty first and Union afterwards'; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...
Página 153 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 467 - ... arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it ; and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amidst the proudest monuments of its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin.
Página 510 - Ye stars are but the shining dust Of my divine abode, The pavement of those heavenly courts Where I shall reign with God.
Página 157 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Página 137 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Página 120 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!