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 1624
... true to itself in what is greatest as in what is least . Danton was a struggling young lawyer in Paris when the Revolu- tion overtook him . In the Cordeliers Club he fitted himself for the popular leadership which came to him as a ...
... true to itself in what is greatest as in what is least . Danton was a struggling young lawyer in Paris when the Revolu- tion overtook him . In the Cordeliers Club he fitted himself for the popular leadership which came to him as a ...
Страница 1626
... true ; but at this moment it is less necessary to examine the causes of the disasters that have struck us than to apply their remedy rapidly . When the edifice is on fire , I do not join the rascals who would steal the furniture , I ...
... true ; but at this moment it is less necessary to examine the causes of the disasters that have struck us than to apply their remedy rapidly . When the edifice is on fire , I do not join the rascals who would steal the furniture , I ...
Страница 1629
... true principles of liberty . EDUCATION , FREE AND COMPULSORY ( From a Speech Delivered in the Convention , August 13th , 1793 ) Citizens : - A FTER having given liberty to France ; after having vanquished her enemies , there can be no ...
... true principles of liberty . EDUCATION , FREE AND COMPULSORY ( From a Speech Delivered in the Convention , August 13th , 1793 ) Citizens : - A FTER having given liberty to France ; after having vanquished her enemies , there can be no ...
Страница 1630
... true Repub- lican . Now for public instruction ; everything shrinks in domestic teaching , everything enlarges and ennobles in public communal instruction . A mistake is made in presenting a tableau of pa- ternal affections . I , too ...
... true Repub- lican . Now for public instruction ; everything shrinks in domestic teaching , everything enlarges and ennobles in public communal instruction . A mistake is made in presenting a tableau of pa- ternal affections . I , too ...
Страница 1635
... true as charged that the success of one of the great parties of the country means revolution and ruin to consti- tutional liberty , of what value would be the securities of the Government , or , indeed , any other species of prosperty ...
... true as charged that the success of one of the great parties of the country means revolution and ruin to consti- tutional liberty , of what value would be the securities of the Government , or , indeed , any other species of prosperty ...
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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,