American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the Most Eminent Orators of America, 第 2 巻D. Appleton and Company, 1857 |
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... remained a year , after which he returned to his home , and continued his studies with a Scotch gentleman , who had been inducted as pastor of the parish , and resided in his father's family . Here he made rapid progress , but on the ...
... remained a year , after which he returned to his home , and continued his studies with a Scotch gentleman , who had been inducted as pastor of the parish , and resided in his father's family . Here he made rapid progress , but on the ...
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... remained until 1792 , when he once more returned to the practice of his profession , and soon became engaged in many of the leading causes in the State and national tribunals . Again in 1795 , he was returned to the State legislature ...
... remained until 1792 , when he once more returned to the practice of his profession , and soon became engaged in many of the leading causes in the State and national tribunals . Again in 1795 , he was returned to the State legislature ...
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... remained until his admission to the bar in the year 1780. A short portion of this period of his life , however , was devoted to the cause of his country , as , in 1778 , he took the field as a volunteer , was appointed an aid to Gen ...
... remained until his admission to the bar in the year 1780. A short portion of this period of his life , however , was devoted to the cause of his country , as , in 1778 , he took the field as a volunteer , was appointed an aid to Gen ...
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... remained seven years . While abroad his relations with the literary and public men of the day , were intimate and distinguished . By the " mild dignity of his manners , and his capacity for public business , he acquired and maintained a ...
... remained seven years . While abroad his relations with the literary and public men of the day , were intimate and distinguished . By the " mild dignity of his manners , and his capacity for public business , he acquired and maintained a ...
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... remained until the close of his legal course . He selected the State of Delaware as the theatre for the pursuit of his profession , and , in the year 1787 , was admitted to the bar of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of New ...
... remained until the close of his legal course . He selected the State of Delaware as the theatre for the pursuit of his profession , and , in the year 1787 , was admitted to the bar of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of New ...
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202 ページ - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
368 ページ - Mr. President, when the mariner has been tossed, for many days, in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
8 ページ - RESOLVED, That the preceding constitution be laid before the United States in congress assembled ; and that it is the opinion of this convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification...
203 ページ - The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
380 ページ - An act to procure the necessary surveys, plans, and estimates upon the subject of roads and canals." It authorized the President to cause surveys and estimates to be made of the routes of such roads and canals as he might deem of national importance, in a commercial or military point of view, or for the transportation of the mail, and.
44 ページ - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
398 ページ - True it is, that Providence hath so ordained, and doth so govern things, that those who break the great law of Heaven by shedding man's blood seldom succeed in avoiding discovery. Especially, in a case exciting so much attention as this, discovery must...
398 ページ - Meantime the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. It is false to itself; or, rather, it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to do with it. The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant.
372 ページ - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the States; it remaining with the several States alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
398 ページ - Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. The assassin enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon ; he winds up the ascent of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber.