Orators of America, pt. II, ed. by G. C. Lee, with the collaboration of C. A. SmithGuy Carleton Lee G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902 |
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... Washington Thomas Jefferson PAGE v 21 233 39 41 Introduction · 71 First Inaugural Address 73 William Wirt Introduction 81 • Against Aaron Burr 83 Henry Clay Introduction • 93 On the Increase of the Navy 95 William Pinkney Introduction ...
... Washington Thomas Jefferson PAGE v 21 233 39 41 Introduction · 71 First Inaugural Address 73 William Wirt Introduction 81 • Against Aaron Burr 83 Henry Clay Introduction • 93 On the Increase of the Navy 95 William Pinkney Introduction ...
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... Washington , being noted as one of the fore- most orators of the day . After the close of his congressional career he took no active part in politics , although he fre- quently wrote timely articles for the journals . He died in 1808 ...
... Washington , being noted as one of the fore- most orators of the day . After the close of his congressional career he took no active part in politics , although he fre- quently wrote timely articles for the journals . He died in 1808 ...
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Guy Carleton Lee. EULOGY ON WASHINGTON Ames . The famous eulogy delivered by Mr. Ames on Washington was prepared at the request of the Legislature of Massachusetts , and pronounced on February 8 , 1800. It is a specimen of a species of ...
Guy Carleton Lee. EULOGY ON WASHINGTON Ames . The famous eulogy delivered by Mr. Ames on Washington was prepared at the request of the Legislature of Massachusetts , and pronounced on February 8 , 1800. It is a specimen of a species of ...
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... Washington is now added to that small number . Already he attracts curiosity , like a newly discovered star , whose benignant light will travel on to the world's and time's farthest bounds . Already his name is hung up by history as ...
... Washington is now added to that small number . Already he attracts curiosity , like a newly discovered star , whose benignant light will travel on to the world's and time's farthest bounds . Already his name is hung up by history as ...
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... partaker of his immortal glory ! These are ambitious , de- ceiving hopes , and I reject them ; for it is , per- haps , almost as difficult at once with judgment and feeling to praise great actions as to perform them Eulogy on Washington 43.
... partaker of his immortal glory ! These are ambitious , de- ceiving hopes , and I reject them ; for it is , per- haps , almost as difficult at once with judgment and feeling to praise great actions as to perform them Eulogy on Washington 43.
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190 AMSTERDAM AVE Aaron Burr admit American argument authority Britain Bunker Hill Monument Calhoun called cause character citizens civil colonies commerce Congress Constitution Court danger debate declared doctrine duty elected eloquence England existence fame favor fear Federal feeling Fisher Ames force France freedom glory happiness Hartford Convention Hayne heart Henry Clay honorable gentleman honorable member human interest internal improvement Jefferson John Quincy Adams jury justice Legaré Legislature liberty Massachusetts measure ment Mississippi nation nature naval navy never object occasion opinion orator oratory party passions patriotism peace political President principles proper protection public lands question Randolph republican revolution Riverside Branch Senate sentiments slavery slaves South Carolina sovereign speech spirit suppose tariff tariff of 1816 Thomas Hart Benton Thomas Jefferson thought tion Union United Virginia virtue votes Washington Webster whole words York Public Library
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265 ページ - It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
303 ページ - THIS uncounted multitude before me and around me proves the feeling which the occasion has excited. These thousands of human faces, glowing with sympathy and joy, and from the impulses of a common gratitude turned reverently to heaven in this spacious temple of the firmament, proclaim that the day, the place, and the purpose of our assembling have made a deep impression on our hearts.
188 ページ - Did not even-handed justice ere long commend the poisoned chalice to their own lips ? Did they not soon find that for another they had " filed their mind " ? that their ambition, though apparently for the moment successful, had but put a barren sceptre in their grasp ? Ay, Sir, " a barren sceptre in their gripe, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand. No son of theirs succeeding.
287 ページ - Sir, the very chief end, the main design, for which the whole constitution was framed and adopted, was to establish a government that should not be obliged to act through state agency, or depend on state opinion and state discretion.
314 ページ - When in your youthful days, you put every thing at hazard in your country's cause, good as that cause was, and sanguine as youth is, still your fondest hopes did not stretch onward to an hour like this ! At a period, to which you could not reasonably have expected to arrive; at a moment of national prosperity, such as you could never have foreseen ; you are now met, here, to enjoy the fellowship of old soldiers, and to receive the overflowings of an universal gratitude.
185 ページ - ... mistaken, and that he is dealing with one of whose temper and character he has yet much to learn. Sir, I shall not allow myself, on this occasion, I hope on no occasion, to be betrayed into any loss of temper; but if provoked, as I trust I never shall...
301 ページ - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union, on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent, on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
298 ページ - ... people have any power to do anything for themselves; they imagine there is no safety for them any longer than they are under the close guardianship of the state legislatures. Sir, the people have not trusted their safety, in regard to the general constitution, to these hands they have required other security, and taken other bonds.
79 ページ - Without pretensions to that high confidence you reposed in our first and greatest revolutionary character, whose pre-eminent services had entitled him to the first place in his country's love, and destined for him the fairest page in the volume of faithful history, I ask so much confidence only as may give firmness and effect to the legal administration of your affairs. I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not...
182 ページ - I am not one of those, sir, who esteem any tribute of regard, whether light and occasional, or more serious and deliberate, which may be bestowed on others, as so much unjustly withholden from themselves. But the tone and manner of the gentleman's question forbid me thus to interpret it.