Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, 第 17 巻Mayo Williamson Hazeltine P. F. Collier & Son, 1905 - 11114 ページ |
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... fact , which you will in vain attempt to deny , but which in itself presents an essential wickedness that makes other public crimes seem like public virtues . But this enormity , vast beyond comparison , swells to dimensions of ...
... fact , which you will in vain attempt to deny , but which in itself presents an essential wickedness that makes other public crimes seem like public virtues . But this enormity , vast beyond comparison , swells to dimensions of ...
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... fact . He shows an incapacity of accuracy , whether in stating the Constitution or in stating the law whether in the details of statistics or the diversions of scholarship . He cannot ope his mouth , but out there flies a blunder ...
... fact . He shows an incapacity of accuracy , whether in stating the Constitution or in stating the law whether in the details of statistics or the diversions of scholarship . He cannot ope his mouth , but out there flies a blunder ...
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... fact , not an argument has he used , which has not been employed on the same side of the Chamber , and re- plied to by me twice . I shall not follow him , therefore , be- cause it would only be repeating the same answer which I have ...
... fact , not an argument has he used , which has not been employed on the same side of the Chamber , and re- plied to by me twice . I shall not follow him , therefore , be- cause it would only be repeating the same answer which I have ...
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... fact , matters of law , and matters of argument - everything but the personal assaults and the malignity . His endeavor seems to be an attempt to whistle to keep up his courage by defiant assaults upon us all . I am in doubt as to what ...
... fact , matters of law , and matters of argument - everything but the personal assaults and the malignity . His endeavor seems to be an attempt to whistle to keep up his courage by defiant assaults upon us all . I am in doubt as to what ...
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... facts that are entirely without foundation , in order to heap upon me some personal oblo- quy . I will not go into the details which have flowed out so naturally from his tongue . I only brand them to his face as false . I say , also ...
... facts that are entirely without foundation , in order to heap upon me some personal oblo- quy . I will not go into the details which have flowed out so naturally from his tongue . I only brand them to his face as false . I say , also ...
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7425 ページ - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
7190 ページ - Christ raised; and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
7425 ページ - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will...
7166 ページ - See Levett to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor lettered arrogance deny Thy praise to merit unrefined.
7168 ページ - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
7186 ページ - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
7212 ページ - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature — that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
7084 ページ - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
7109 ページ - Ten of them were sheathed in steel. With belted sword and spur on heel: They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day nor yet by night: They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
7063 ページ - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.