A Selection of Eulogies: Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of Those Illustrious Patriots and Statesmen, John Adams and Thomas JeffersonD. F. Robinson & Company, 1826 - 426 ページ |
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... means of perpetuating freedom , let the annual recurrence of the day of our nation's birth , be ever hailed with rapture . Is it not stamped with the seal of the divinity ? How wonderful are the means by which he rules the world ...
... means of perpetuating freedom , let the annual recurrence of the day of our nation's birth , be ever hailed with rapture . Is it not stamped with the seal of the divinity ? How wonderful are the means by which he rules the world ...
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... means , which Nature and Nature's God ' had put in their hands , —then were they traitors against the king to whom they owed allegiance , and rebels against that parliament , which they were bound to obey . But they were not traitors ...
... means , which Nature and Nature's God ' had put in their hands , —then were they traitors against the king to whom they owed allegiance , and rebels against that parliament , which they were bound to obey . But they were not traitors ...
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... means of his state . lent the aid of his standing and character to Massachusetts , in the establishment of her constitution , in whose construction he largely participated . But services , like these , which would create a brilliant ...
... means of his state . lent the aid of his standing and character to Massachusetts , in the establishment of her constitution , in whose construction he largely participated . But services , like these , which would create a brilliant ...
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... means for our defence and securing the friendship of European nations . But wherever this distinguished man appeared , whether in Fanu- iel Hall , in the Congress of '76 , or in Europe , at home or abroad , he was ever the eloquent ...
... means for our defence and securing the friendship of European nations . But wherever this distinguished man appeared , whether in Fanu- iel Hall , in the Congress of '76 , or in Europe , at home or abroad , he was ever the eloquent ...
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... means of resistance . The few faithful patriots that lingered about his standard , reduced to extremities , were compelled to fly before the conquering enemy . The country seemed sinking beneath its load of calamities . Still the ...
... means of resistance . The few faithful patriots that lingered about his standard , reduced to extremities , were compelled to fly before the conquering enemy . The country seemed sinking beneath its load of calamities . Still the ...
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212 ページ - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments.
215 ページ - Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust? I know we do not mean to submit. We never shall submit.
242 ページ - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
101 ページ - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
396 ページ - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
424 ページ - Here was buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of The Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.
262 ページ - Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
2 ページ - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
230 ページ - It cannot be denied, but by those who would dispute against the sun, that with America, and in America, a new era commences in human affairs. This era is distinguished by free representative governments, by entire religious liberty, by improved systems of national intercourse, by a newly awakened and an unconquerable spirit of free inquiry, and by a diffusion of knowledge through the community, such as has been before altogether unknown and unheard of.
242 ページ - MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...