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 1689
... defendant unless each of you jurors , observing his religious obligation , shall with like favor receive the arguments of the last speaker , and lend an equal and impartial ear to both , before he determines upon the whole case . As I ...
... defendant unless each of you jurors , observing his religious obligation , shall with like favor receive the arguments of the last speaker , and lend an equal and impartial ear to both , before he determines upon the whole case . As I ...
Страница 1690
... defendant . His hatred of me he makes the prominent part of the whole contest ; yet , without having ever met me upon that ground , he openly seeks to de- prive a third party of his privileges . Now , men of Athens , besides all the ...
... defendant . His hatred of me he makes the prominent part of the whole contest ; yet , without having ever met me upon that ground , he openly seeks to de- prive a third party of his privileges . Now , men of Athens , besides all the ...
Страница 1699
... defendant in proposing such clauses . Thus honestly and simply , men of Athens , have I resolved to conduct my defense . I now proceed to my own actual measures . And let no one suppose that I wander from the indictment , if I touch ...
... defendant in proposing such clauses . Thus honestly and simply , men of Athens , have I resolved to conduct my defense . I now proceed to my own actual measures . And let no one suppose that I wander from the indictment , if I touch ...
Страница 1711
... defendant made this motion in my favor . That this is a settled principle in your hearts as well as in the laws , I can show by many proofs easily . First , Nausicles has often been crowned by you for what he expended out of his own ...
... defendant made this motion in my favor . That this is a settled principle in your hearts as well as in the laws , I can show by many proofs easily . First , Nausicles has often been crowned by you for what he expended out of his own ...
Страница 1732
... defendant , you will ap- pear to have done wrong , not to have suffered what befell you by the cruelty of fortune . But never , never can you have done wrong , O Athenians , in undertaking the battle for the freedom and safety of all ...
... defendant , you will ap- pear to have done wrong , not to have suffered what befell you by the cruelty of fortune . But never , never can you have done wrong , O Athenians , in undertaking the battle for the freedom and safety of all ...
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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,