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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... scene of dismay and confusion which prevailed at Athens when the news came , is graphically described by Demos- thenes in his oration on the crown . We quote his eloquent description here , following Leland's translation : " Thus ...
... scene of dismay and confusion which prevailed at Athens when the news came , is graphically described by Demos- thenes in his oration on the crown . We quote his eloquent description here , following Leland's translation : " Thus ...
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... scene by a few distinct character- istic touches - the presidents starting from their seats in the midst of supper- rushing into the market place - tearing down the booths around it - burning up the hurdles even , though the space would ...
... scene by a few distinct character- istic touches - the presidents starting from their seats in the midst of supper- rushing into the market place - tearing down the booths around it - burning up the hurdles even , though the space would ...
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... 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 fatal blow fell upon Greece . Her liberty ...
... 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 fatal blow fell upon Greece . Her liberty ...
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... scene of his immortal triumphs . A native of the small island of Seriphus once reproached Themis- tocles with deriving his greatness from that of his country . ' It may be so , ' was the reply , but thou could'st no more have been ...
... scene of his immortal triumphs . A native of the small island of Seriphus once reproached Themis- tocles with deriving his greatness from that of his country . ' It may be so , ' was the reply , but thou could'st no more have been ...
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... scene of its early glory . On those stone benches , are seated , within reach of a single speaker's eye and voice an entire myriad of human beings , met here on terms of per- fect equality , to deliberate on the state of the nation ...
... scene of its early glory . On those stone benches , are seated , within reach of a single speaker's eye and voice an entire myriad of human beings , met here on terms of per- fect equality , to deliberate on the state of the nation ...
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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!