The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces; Together with Rules; Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of EloquenceWilliam S. Parker, 1821 - 300 halaman |
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Halaman 10
... ftill- extant , and appears exceedingly well calculated to > touch the foft and tender paffions and fprings of the foul ; but we believe it can scarcely be difcernible to any , in reading it , how it fhould have had fo furprising an ...
... ftill- extant , and appears exceedingly well calculated to > touch the foft and tender paffions and fprings of the foul ; but we believe it can scarcely be difcernible to any , in reading it , how it fhould have had fo furprising an ...
Halaman 37
... ftill . They not only prefcribe what is beft to do ; but for deviating ever fo little from their plans , they make ' it a crime in their conful , and cite him before their tribunal . But know , Romans , this is of very bad ef- fect with ...
... ftill . They not only prefcribe what is beft to do ; but for deviating ever fo little from their plans , they make ' it a crime in their conful , and cite him before their tribunal . But know , Romans , this is of very bad ef- fect with ...
Halaman 41
... ftill more heavily with misfortunes ; a father , whofe whole life had been one continued ftrug- gle with adverfity . We added that we had a brother peculiarly dear to him , as the children born towards the end of their life generally ...
... ftill more heavily with misfortunes ; a father , whofe whole life had been one continued ftrug- gle with adverfity . We added that we had a brother peculiarly dear to him , as the children born towards the end of their life generally ...
Halaman 46
... ftill , as op'ning sense her dictates wrote , Fair virtue put a feal , or vice a blot . The thought was happy , pertinent , and true , Methinks a genius might the plan purfue . I , ( can you pardon my prefumption ? ) I , No wit , no ...
... ftill , as op'ning sense her dictates wrote , Fair virtue put a feal , or vice a blot . The thought was happy , pertinent , and true , Methinks a genius might the plan purfue . I , ( can you pardon my prefumption ? ) I , No wit , no ...
Halaman 48
... ftill fubfifted by its own ftrength ; has borne itself up notwithstanding your neglect . It is not now the fame . Our manners , good or bad , are not the question , nor to preserve the greatnefs and lufture of the Roman empire ; but to ...
... ftill fubfifted by its own ftrength ; has borne itself up notwithstanding your neglect . It is not now the fame . Our manners , good or bad , are not the question , nor to preserve the greatnefs and lufture of the Roman empire ; but to ...
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Halaman 261 - France, my lords, has insulted you ; she has encouraged and sustained America; and whether America be wrong or right, the dignity of this country ought to spurn at the officious insult of French interference. The ministers and...
Halaman 149 - Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man, who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations...
Halaman 149 - THOUGH in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am, nevertheless, too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils, to which they may tend.
Halaman 149 - ... guarantee of the plans by which they were effected. Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with me to my grave as a strong incitement to unceasing vows that Heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence; that your union and...
Halaman 60 - I know the valour of your troops. I know the skill of your officers. There is not a company of foot that has served in America out of which you may not pick a man of sufficient knowledge and experience to make a governor of a colony there.
Halaman 34 - ... day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision...
Halaman 147 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this .resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Halaman 263 - ... impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Halaman 260 - This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment ! It is not a time for adulation. The smoothness of flattery cannot now avail; cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Halaman 96 - Experience might inform them that many, who have been saluted with the huzzas of a crowd one day, have received their execrations the next ; and many, who by the popularity of their times, have been held up as spotless patriots, have, nevertheless, appeared upon the historian's page, when truth has triumphed over delusion, the assassins of liberty.