The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American Authors, of the Most Admired Specimens of Congressional, Forensic, Pulpit and Popular Eloquence, with Dialogues and Poetical Extracts, Adapted to Public Recitation : and an Introduction, Embracing the Principle Rules Relating to Delivery and ActionPublished and sold by Daniel Fenton, Thomas T. Stiles, printer, 1815 - 324 страници |
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... was the new test to which we are to put this government . We are about to ascertain by actual experiment , how far our republican institutions are cal B culated to stand the shock of war ; and whether CHAPTER I CONGRESSIONAL SPEECHES.
... was the new test to which we are to put this government . We are about to ascertain by actual experiment , how far our republican institutions are cal B culated to stand the shock of war ; and whether CHAPTER I CONGRESSIONAL SPEECHES.
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... republicans ; they remonstrated , they cla- mored , they appealed to the people , and by a national sentence , the men then in power were taken down from their high places , and republican men were put in their seats . If your minds are ...
... republicans ; they remonstrated , they cla- mored , they appealed to the people , and by a national sentence , the men then in power were taken down from their high places , and republican men were put in their seats . If your minds are ...
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... Republicans were then unwilling to trust a standing army even to his hands who had given proof that he was above all human temptation . Where now is the revolutionary hero to whom you are about to confide this sacred trust ? —to whom ...
... Republicans were then unwilling to trust a standing army even to his hands who had given proof that he was above all human temptation . Where now is the revolutionary hero to whom you are about to confide this sacred trust ? —to whom ...
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... republicans , who then dared , and now dare , to cling to the ark of the consti- tution , to defend it even at the expense of their fame , rather than surrender themselves to the wild projects of mad ambition . There was a fatality ...
... republicans , who then dared , and now dare , to cling to the ark of the consti- tution , to defend it even at the expense of their fame , rather than surrender themselves to the wild projects of mad ambition . There was a fatality ...
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... republican- ism ! Such " republicanism does indeed mean any thing or nothing . " Our people will not submit to be taxed for this war of conquest and dominion . The government of the United States is not calculated to wage offensive ...
... republican- ism ! Such " republicanism does indeed mean any thing or nothing . " Our people will not submit to be taxed for this war of conquest and dominion . The government of the United States is not calculated to wage offensive ...
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Страница 303 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Страница 316 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Страница 76 - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Страница 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Страница 322 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Страница 313 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gem'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Страница 316 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Страница 314 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...