Living Orators in AmericaBaker and Scribner, 1849 - 462 ページ |
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... friends was under his command in the battle of Bennington , at White Plains , and at West Point , when Arnold's treason was discovered . He died about the year 1806 , having worthily filled several public offices , and , among others ...
... friends was under his command in the battle of Bennington , at White Plains , and at West Point , when Arnold's treason was discovered . He died about the year 1806 , having worthily filled several public offices , and , among others ...
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... friends . Called in early manhood to antagonize with veterans of the amplest resources , and of the quickest penetration ; he battled bravely with men whose comprehensive men- tal grasp , rigid logic , and apt illustration , left no ...
... friends . Called in early manhood to antagonize with veterans of the amplest resources , and of the quickest penetration ; he battled bravely with men whose comprehensive men- tal grasp , rigid logic , and apt illustration , left no ...
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... friends who gather round it ; and it will fall at last , if fall it must , amidst the proudest monu- ments of its own glory , and on the very spot of its origin . " We have endeavored to describe and exemplify from his own productions ...
... friends who gather round it ; and it will fall at last , if fall it must , amidst the proudest monu- ments of its own glory , and on the very spot of its origin . " We have endeavored to describe and exemplify from his own productions ...
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... friend , " are remembered with respectful grati- tude by all whose privilege it was to be connected with the college ... friends abroad , particularly with the scholars and patriots of Greece ; and by his zealous exertions did much to ...
... friend , " are remembered with respectful grati- tude by all whose privilege it was to be connected with the college ... friends abroad , particularly with the scholars and patriots of Greece ; and by his zealous exertions did much to ...
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... friend of our country applied to our commissioners at Paris , in 1776 , for a pas- sage in the first ship they should despatch to America , they were obliged to answer him , ( so low and abject was then our dear native land ) that they ...
... friend of our country applied to our commissioners at Paris , in 1776 , for a pas- sage in the first ship they should despatch to America , they were obliged to answer him , ( so low and abject was then our dear native land ) that they ...
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18 ページ - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
43 ページ - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction.
461 ページ - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings': at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthron'd in the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air ; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature.
145 ページ - That Missouri shall be admitted into this Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever upon the fundamental condition that the fourth clause of the twenty-sixth section of the third article of the constitution, submitted on the part of said State to Congress, shall never be construed to authorize the passage of any law, and that no law shall be passed in conformity thereto, by which any citizen of either of the States...
52 ページ - I had almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. /VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country.
7 ページ - We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age.
52 ページ - You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and successful repulse; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance...
52 ページ - You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else, how changed!
145 ページ - And it shall be the duty of the General Assembly as soon as may be to provide effectual means for the improvement and permanent security of the funds of said University.
10 ページ - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.