The American Orator: With an Appendix Containing the Declaration of Independence, with the Fac-similes of the Autographs of the Signers; the Constitution of the United States; Washington's Farewell Address; and Fac-similes of the Autographs of a Large Number of Distinguished Individualscompiler, 1853 - 448 ページ |
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... feel that we are on the spot where the first scene of our history was laid ; where the hearths and altars of New Eng- land were first placed ; where Christianity , and civilization , and letters , made their first lodgment , in a vast ...
... feel that we are on the spot where the first scene of our history was laid ; where the hearths and altars of New Eng- land were first placed ; where Christianity , and civilization , and letters , made their first lodgment , in a vast ...
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... feel a compunc- tious throb , that ever he should have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him ? The grave of those we loved- what a place for meditation ! There it is that we call up in long review the ...
... feel a compunc- tious throb , that ever he should have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him ? The grave of those we loved- what a place for meditation ! There it is that we call up in long review the ...
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... feel ourselves borne along the current of time , when we see our- selves hourly approach that cloud , impenetrable to the human eye , which terminates the last visible portion of this moving estuary , who of us , although he may hope ...
... feel ourselves borne along the current of time , when we see our- selves hourly approach that cloud , impenetrable to the human eye , which terminates the last visible portion of this moving estuary , who of us , although he may hope ...
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... feel , borne at one sweep from this mortal existence , hurried from the relations of this life , sud- denly , violently , and forever ! O ! the homes and the hearts that were left desolate that night ! O ! the peculiar nature of that ...
... feel , borne at one sweep from this mortal existence , hurried from the relations of this life , sud- denly , violently , and forever ! O ! the homes and the hearts that were left desolate that night ! O ! the peculiar nature of that ...
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... feel how inadequate are my poor words to serve such an occasion as to welcome the representative man of the cause of liberty in the Old World , on the soil where that cause in the New World first met the shock of regular conflict ...
... feel how inadequate are my poor words to serve such an occasion as to welcome the representative man of the cause of liberty in the Old World , on the soil where that cause in the New World first met the shock of regular conflict ...
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197 ページ - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
115 ページ - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
402 ページ - Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the whole. The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal Laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter, great additional resources of Maratime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The...
93 ページ - Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, Independence now, and Independence forever.
199 ページ - There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
394 ページ - No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president ; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
400 ページ - In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved...
198 ページ - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.
403 ページ - Will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the Union by which they were procured? Will they not henceforth be deaf to those Advisers, if such there are, who would sever them from their Brethren and connect them with Aliens?
400 ページ - FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the Executive Government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed to decline being considered among the number...