The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Том 5F. P. Kaiser, 1901 - 111 страници The text of thousands of speeches from all historical periods through the 19th century arranged in alphabetical order. |
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Страница 1685
... Athenian autonomy and liberty . The Athens of his day represented all that was highest in intellect , and in the ap- plication of intellect to art , to science , to philosophy , to moral force in government . Against it , threatening ...
... Athenian autonomy and liberty . The Athens of his day represented all that was highest in intellect , and in the ap- plication of intellect to art , to science , to philosophy , to moral force in government . Against it , threatening ...
Страница 1686
... Athens he is moving Greece and the world . He is staking every- thing for his country and braving for his countrymen the certainty of ingratitude , treachery , and persecution to save them and their civ- ilization from being overcome by ...
... Athens he is moving Greece and the world . He is staking every- thing for his country and braving for his countrymen the certainty of ingratitude , treachery , and persecution to save them and their civ- ilization from being overcome by ...
Страница 1687
... Athens , and also for his magnanimity , and because he had ever both by word and deed promoted the interests of the people and been zealous to do all the good in his power . " Rallying behind Eschines , the Macedonian party attacked ...
... Athens , and also for his magnanimity , and because he had ever both by word and deed promoted the interests of the people and been zealous to do all the good in his power . " Rallying behind Eschines , the Macedonian party attacked ...
Страница 1688
... Athens , 330 B. C. , in Defense of Ktesiphon - from the Transla- tion of Kennedy . Following the plan of the work under which the ' World's Best Orations ' are published in full , the ' Oration on the Crown ' is given complete , as are ...
... Athens , 330 B. C. , in Defense of Ktesiphon - from the Transla- tion of Kennedy . Following the plan of the work under which the ' World's Best Orations ' are published in full , the ' Oration on the Crown ' is given complete , as are ...
Страница 1689
... Athens , to begin by shortly adverting to these points that none of you may be in- duced by extraneous arguments to shut your ears against my defense to the indictment . To all his scandalous abuse of my private life , observe my plain ...
... Athens , to begin by shortly adverting to these points that none of you may be in- duced by extraneous arguments to shut your ears against my defense to the indictment . To all his scandalous abuse of my private life , observe my plain ...
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Страница 1644 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us?
Страница 1944 - I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Страница 2012 - He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Страница 1970 - The constitution unavoidably deals in general language. It did not suit the purposes of the people, in framing this great charter of our liberties, to provide for minute specifications of its powers, or to declare the means by which those powers should be carried into execution.
Страница 1849 - But why should we enumerate our injuries in detail ? By one statute it is declared that Parliament can, <( of right, make laws to bind us in all cases whatsoever." What is to defend us against so enormous, so unlimited a power ? Not a single man of those who assume it is chosen by us, or is subject to our...
Страница 1979 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Страница 2004 - In a century, in a millennium, one or two men; that is to say, — one or two approximations to the right state of every man. All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being, — ripened ; yes, and are content to be less, so that may attain to its full stature.
Страница 1980 - ... suffered to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep; and there is no other reason to be given why you have not dropped into hell since you arose in the morning, but that God's hand has held you up...
Страница 1655 - Doubly justified by the absence of wrong on our part, and by wanton aggression on the part of others, there can be no cause to doubt that the courage and patriotism of the people of the Confederate States will be found equal to any measures of defence which soon their security may require.
Страница 1999 - And how this good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember ; and with what increasing tenderness he dealt when a whole race was thrown on his compassion. The poor negro said of him, on an impressive occasion,