The American Orator: With an Appendix Containing the Declaration of Independence, with the Fac-similes of the Autographs of the Signers; the Constitution of the United States; Washington's Farewell Address; and Fac-similes of the Autographs of a Large Number of Distinguished Individualscompiler, 1853 - 448 halaman |
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Halaman 29
... dark with self - love and the spirit of vengeance ; not in the fitful philosophy and intemperate eloquence of Tully ; not in the genial libertinism of Horace , or the stately atheism of Lucretius . these must not be our masters ; in ...
... dark with self - love and the spirit of vengeance ; not in the fitful philosophy and intemperate eloquence of Tully ; not in the genial libertinism of Horace , or the stately atheism of Lucretius . these must not be our masters ; in ...
Halaman 35
... darkness of slavery it guides , and cheers , and warms ; it fills the universe with its splendor . THE UNION . - H . Clay . I Do not desire to see the lustre of one single star dimmed of that glorious confederacy which constitutes our ...
... darkness of slavery it guides , and cheers , and warms ; it fills the universe with its splendor . THE UNION . - H . Clay . I Do not desire to see the lustre of one single star dimmed of that glorious confederacy which constitutes our ...
Halaman 38
... dark barren into a more bright and peaceful region , yet who , I say , can feel himself receding swiftly from the eye of all human sympathy , leaving the vision of all human monuments , and not wish , as he passes by , to place on those ...
... dark barren into a more bright and peaceful region , yet who , I say , can feel himself receding swiftly from the eye of all human sympathy , leaving the vision of all human monuments , and not wish , as he passes by , to place on those ...
Halaman 40
... darkness ! BURNING OF THE LEXINGTON . — E. H. Chapin . GREAT calamities , though they may startle and appal at first , live but a brief time in the memory of the multitude . There is a vivid flash , a momentary shock , when the noisy 40 ...
... darkness ! BURNING OF THE LEXINGTON . — E. H. Chapin . GREAT calamities , though they may startle and appal at first , live but a brief time in the memory of the multitude . There is a vivid flash , a momentary shock , when the noisy 40 ...
Halaman 41
... darkness of the night , the inclement winter air , and a waste of cold and icy waters ; leaving to its wretched inmates , in almost every instance , nothing but the dreadful alternative of death by the consuming flame or by the freezing ...
... darkness of the night , the inclement winter air , and a waste of cold and icy waters ; leaving to its wretched inmates , in almost every instance , nothing but the dreadful alternative of death by the consuming flame or by the freezing ...
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Halaman 197 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Halaman 115 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Halaman 402 - Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the whole. The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal Laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter, great additional resources of Maratime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The...
Halaman 93 - Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, Independence now, and Independence forever.
Halaman 199 - There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Halaman 394 - No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president ; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Halaman 400 - In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved...
Halaman 198 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Halaman 403 - Will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the Union by which they were procured? Will they not henceforth be deaf to those Advisers, if such there are, who would sever them from their Brethren and connect them with Aliens?
Halaman 400 - FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the Executive Government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed to decline being considered among the number...