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 47
... whose blood runs high , Who picks a quarrel if you step awry , Who can't a jeft , or hint , or look endure : What's he ? What ? Touch paper to be fure . What are our poets , take them as they fall , Good , bad , rich , poor , much read ...
... whose blood runs high , Who picks a quarrel if you step awry , Who can't a jeft , or hint , or look endure : What's he ? What ? Touch paper to be fure . What are our poets , take them as they fall , Good , bad , rich , poor , much read ...
Halaman 116
... whose wounds are witneffes against him , would give a generous price to fatisfy their vengeance . Francifco . Detefted ruffian ! blast not the names of gratitude and honor with your breath . Has not my life already been enough expofed ...
... whose wounds are witneffes against him , would give a generous price to fatisfy their vengeance . Francifco . Detefted ruffian ! blast not the names of gratitude and honor with your breath . Has not my life already been enough expofed ...
Halaman 143
... whose abilities and whofe valor we admired ; but , in the character of Roman citizens , we have a far different part to fuftain . I muft fuppofe , that I now fpeak to the Roman people , and to citizens of a free republic ; to men who ...
... whose abilities and whofe valor we admired ; but , in the character of Roman citizens , we have a far different part to fuftain . I muft fuppofe , that I now fpeak to the Roman people , and to citizens of a free republic ; to men who ...
Halaman 195
... whose wisdom , like a torrent of lightning , emanates through all the dark reoeffes of eternal duration ! How great must be the effect of a fenfe of the prefence of the great Creator and Governor of all things , to whom belong the ...
... whose wisdom , like a torrent of lightning , emanates through all the dark reoeffes of eternal duration ! How great must be the effect of a fenfe of the prefence of the great Creator and Governor of all things , to whom belong the ...
Halaman 200
... whose power restrains him in his courfe , caufing him to .pro- duce the agreeable changes of day and night , as well as the variety of seasons ? The order , harmony , and regularity in the revolutions of the heavenly bodies , are fuch ...
... whose power restrains him in his courfe , caufing him to .pro- duce the agreeable changes of day and night , as well as the variety of seasons ? The order , harmony , and regularity in the revolutions of the heavenly bodies , are fuch ...
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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.