The Most Eminent Orators and Statesmen of Ancient and Modern Times: Containing Sketches of Their Lives, Specimens of Their Eloquence, and an Estimate of Their GeniusCharles Scribner, 1857 - 518 ページ |
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... arms , eloquence was born . Like that most beautiful of the mythological fancies , the God- dess of Wisdom , it seems to have sprung at once to perfection , full - armed and glorious . We know , indeed , that Greece abounded in orators ...
... arms , eloquence was born . Like that most beautiful of the mythological fancies , the God- dess of Wisdom , it seems to have sprung at once to perfection , full - armed and glorious . We know , indeed , that Greece abounded in orators ...
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... arms , and hastened to the spot , where Leonidas and his brave band had poured out their life- bood for the cause of liberty and of Greece . The remem- brance of this ancient heroism , doubtless , nerved the arm of Athens ' noble sons ...
... arms , and hastened to the spot , where Leonidas and his brave band had poured out their life- bood for the cause of liberty and of Greece . The remem- brance of this ancient heroism , doubtless , nerved the arm of Athens ' noble sons ...
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... arms ! To arms ! Lead us against Philip ! " Two thousand years afterwards , the same enthusiasm which then , amid their graceful columns , inspired the excitable Athenians , and filled their spacious amphitheater with a shout that rose ...
... arms ! To arms ! Lead us against Philip ! " Two thousand years afterwards , the same enthusiasm which then , amid their graceful columns , inspired the excitable Athenians , and filled their spacious amphitheater with a shout that rose ...
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... arms , and ingloriously fled from the scene of slaughter . This battle proved that he was greater as an orator and statesman than as a soldier ; that his courage was political , rather than military . By this disastrous conflict , a ...
... arms , and ingloriously fled from the scene of slaughter . This battle proved that he was greater as an orator and statesman than as a soldier ; that his courage was political , rather than military . By this disastrous conflict , a ...
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... arms , the coward , the deserter of his post in battle , is ex- cluded from all share in the public deliberations , denied admission to our religious rites , and rendered incapable of receiving the honor of a crown . now it is proposed ...
... arms , the coward , the deserter of his post in battle , is ex- cluded from all share in the public deliberations , denied admission to our religious rites , and rendered incapable of receiving the honor of a crown . now it is proposed ...
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153 ページ - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy.
154 ページ - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
320 ページ - Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third " "Treason ! " cried the speaker, John Robinson, and " Treason 1 treason ! " re-echoed from every part of the house.
470 ページ - Liberty first and Union afterwards'; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...
153 ページ - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
467 ページ - ... arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it ; and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amidst the proudest monuments of its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin.
510 ページ - Ye stars are but the shining dust Of my divine abode, The pavement of those heavenly courts Where I shall reign with God.
157 ページ - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
137 ページ - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
120 ページ - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!