Orators of the American RevolutionBaker and Scribner, 1848 - 456 páginas |
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... reason to regret the injury they have done to a sin cere and honest people . " More follows in the same tart strain , which we need not quote . During the session of this year , an innovation was made in the history of legislation which ...
... reason to regret the injury they have done to a sin cere and honest people . " More follows in the same tart strain , which we need not quote . During the session of this year , an innovation was made in the history of legislation which ...
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... reasons of sundry declarations made by him , that three regiments might be daily expected , " & c . A committee was appointed to wait upon the governor , urging him in the present critical state of affairs to issue precepts for a ...
... reasons of sundry declarations made by him , that three regiments might be daily expected , " & c . A committee was appointed to wait upon the governor , urging him in the present critical state of affairs to issue precepts for a ...
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... reason but the mere pleasure of inflicting pangs . In this respect , the orator of Roanoke resem- bled the Sicilian tyrant whose taste for cruelty led him to seek recreation in putting insects to the torture . If such men cannot strike ...
... reason but the mere pleasure of inflicting pangs . In this respect , the orator of Roanoke resem- bled the Sicilian tyrant whose taste for cruelty led him to seek recreation in putting insects to the torture . If such men cannot strike ...
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... reason . Figures that are striking , emotions that are fleeting , intermingled with close reasoning and calm repose , constitute a style of address universally popular , because adapted to our nature . Thoughts must not present a dry ...
... reason . Figures that are striking , emotions that are fleeting , intermingled with close reasoning and calm repose , constitute a style of address universally popular , because adapted to our nature . Thoughts must not present a dry ...
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... reason every day to convince me that he has been right when others supposed him wrong . General Joseph Read , of Pennsylvania , on being offered a heavy bribe by Governor Johnson in 1778 returned this pithy answer to the corrupt attempt ...
... reason every day to convince me that he has been right when others supposed him wrong . General Joseph Read , of Pennsylvania , on being offered a heavy bribe by Governor Johnson in 1778 returned this pithy answer to the corrupt attempt ...
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Página 137 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect. unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Página 6 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Página 146 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore.
Página 9 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 46 - We must be unanimous ; there must be no pulling different ways: we must all hang together." Franklin replied, " Yes, we must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Página 257 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Página 228 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Página 24 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
Página 229 - What terms shall we find, which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done every thing that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on.
Página 146 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.