American Oratory: Or Selections from the Speeches of Eminent AmericansDesilver, Thomas & Company, 1836 - 531 ページ |
この書籍内から
検索結果1-5 / 100
ページ
... necessary , that all should have at hand those models , which the peculiar character of our institutions , the tone of our national thought , and the exigencies of our history , have combined to produce . Foreign orators may serve as ...
... necessary , that all should have at hand those models , which the peculiar character of our institutions , the tone of our national thought , and the exigencies of our history , have combined to produce . Foreign orators may serve as ...
1 ページ
... necessary occasion shall call forth its strength . Permit me , sir , by appealing , in a few instances , to the spirit and conduct of the colonists , to evince that what 1 A SPEECH of James Wilson, January, 1775, in the Convention for ...
... necessary occasion shall call forth its strength . Permit me , sir , by appealing , in a few instances , to the spirit and conduct of the colonists , to evince that what 1 A SPEECH of James Wilson, January, 1775, in the Convention for ...
2 ページ
... necessary now to act ; but she acted with the calmness and decent dignity suited to her character . Were we rash or seditious ? Did we discover want of loyalty to our sovereign ? Did we betray want of affection to our brethren in ...
... necessary now to act ; but she acted with the calmness and decent dignity suited to her character . Were we rash or seditious ? Did we discover want of loyalty to our sovereign ? Did we betray want of affection to our brethren in ...
3 ページ
... necessary for us to abstain from them ? A regard for our freedom and our safety was our only motive ; for no sooner had the parlia- ment , by repealing part of the revenue laws , inspired us with the flattering hopes , that they had ...
... necessary for us to abstain from them ? A regard for our freedom and our safety was our only motive ; for no sooner had the parlia- ment , by repealing part of the revenue laws , inspired us with the flattering hopes , that they had ...
6 ページ
... necessary for them to blend , the tyrannic acts of administration with the lawful measures of government , and to veil every flagitious procedure of the ministry under the venerable mantle of majesty , pretend to discover , and employ ...
... necessary for them to blend , the tyrannic acts of administration with the lawful measures of government , and to veil every flagitious procedure of the ministry under the venerable mantle of majesty , pretend to discover , and employ ...
他の版 - すべて表示
多く使われている語句
admit adoption amendments American argument army authority believe bill bill of attainder Britain British called cause circuit court citizens colonies commerce common law congress consequences consider constitution danger debts declaration defence depend doctrine duty effect embargo England established Europe evil executive existence favor fear federal feel force foreign France gentleman from Virginia give happiness honorable gentleman honorable member hope human important independence influence interest judiciary justice Kentucky language legislative legislature liberty Massachusetts means measure ment ministers Mississippi Territory monarch nation nature necessary never North Carolina object occasion opinion Orleans party patriotism peace Pennsylvania political possession present president principles question reason republican resolution respect senate sentiments slavery Spain spirit stadtholder suppose supreme court thing tion told trade treaty treaty of Utrecht trial by jury trust union United violated vote wish
人気のある引用
300 ページ - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
15 ページ - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak ; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
15 ページ - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest; there is no retreat but in submission and slavery. Our chains- are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston; the war is inevitable, and let it come; I repeat it, sir, — let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace! But there is no peace! The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding...
21 ページ - That government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of...
437 ページ - We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of the 2 morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
198 ページ - That a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest Court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had...
437 ページ - We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event to every class and every age. We wish that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests.
53 ページ - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
14 ページ - 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.
492 ページ - Are not you, sir, who sit in that chair, is not he, our venerable colleague near you, are you not both already the proscribed...