American Oratory, Or, Selections from the Speeches of Eminent AmericansEdward C. Biddle, 1840 - 531 ページ |
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... ment over all the dominions of the crown . " - Speech of the King of Great Britain to Parliament , Nov. 1774 . MR . CHAIRMAN , Whence , sir , proceeds all the invidious and ill - grounded clamor against the colonists of America ? Why ...
... ment over all the dominions of the crown . " - Speech of the King of Great Britain to Parliament , Nov. 1774 . MR . CHAIRMAN , Whence , sir , proceeds all the invidious and ill - grounded clamor against the colonists of America ? Why ...
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... ment , by repealing part of the revenue laws , inspired us with the flattering hopes , that they had departed from their intentions of oppressing and of taxing us , than we forsook our plan for defeat- ing those intentions , and began ...
... ment , by repealing part of the revenue laws , inspired us with the flattering hopes , that they had departed from their intentions of oppressing and of taxing us , than we forsook our plan for defeat- ing those intentions , and began ...
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... ment : we have parliaments ( it is immaterial what name they go by ) of our own . That a void act can confer no authority upon those who proceed under color of it , is a self - evident proposition . Before I proceed to the other clauses ...
... ment : we have parliaments ( it is immaterial what name they go by ) of our own . That a void act can confer no authority upon those who proceed under color of it , is a self - evident proposition . Before I proceed to the other clauses ...
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... ment ; because the authority of parliament does not extend to it : it cannot be justified or excused by the operation of prerogative ; because this is none of the cases in which prerogative can op- erate : it cannot be justified or ...
... ment ; because the authority of parliament does not extend to it : it cannot be justified or excused by the operation of prerogative ; because this is none of the cases in which prerogative can op- erate : it cannot be justified or ...
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... ment . " Let us examine any commission expressly directing those to whom it is given to use military force for carrying into execution the alterations proposed to be made in the charter and constitution of Massachusetts Bay , by the ...
... ment . " Let us examine any commission expressly directing those to whom it is given to use military force for carrying into execution the alterations proposed to be made in the charter and constitution of Massachusetts Bay , by the ...
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15 ページ - 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.
14 ページ - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love ? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir.
15 ページ - 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 arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take;...
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.
14 ページ - President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of 2 hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty ? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not...
450 ページ - Let our conceptions be enlarged to the circle of our duties. Let us extend our ideas over the whole of the vast field in which we are called to act. Let our object be, OUR COUNTRY, OUR WHOLE COUNTRY, AND NOTHING BUT OUR COUNTRY.
198 ページ - By the twenty-filth section of the judiciary act of seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, it is provided, "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...
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...
450 ページ - In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions-, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
490 ページ - Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, — they cannot reach it.