The American Orator's Own BookC.M. Saxton, Barker & Company, 1859 - 350 páginas |
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... Death .. 192 Robert Emmett before receiving Sentence of Death .... 193 The Miller of Mansfield ... 199 True Patriotism at the Siege of Calais . 202 Lord Walpole against Pitt ...... 205 Pitt's Reply to the Charges of Walpole .. 206 ...
... Death .. 192 Robert Emmett before receiving Sentence of Death .... 193 The Miller of Mansfield ... 199 True Patriotism at the Siege of Calais . 202 Lord Walpole against Pitt ...... 205 Pitt's Reply to the Charges of Walpole .. 206 ...
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... Death of Washington ..... 297 General Lee's Funeral Oration on the Death of Washington .. Inaugural Message of John Adams - March 4 , 1797 ..... Inaugural Message of Thomas Jefferson - March 4 , 1801 .. Inaugural Message of James ...
... Death of Washington ..... 297 General Lee's Funeral Oration on the Death of Washington .. Inaugural Message of John Adams - March 4 , 1797 ..... Inaugural Message of Thomas Jefferson - March 4 , 1801 .. Inaugural Message of James ...
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prosecuted with unremitting vengeance , and brought to cruel and dishonorable deaths by the violence and injustice of American juries . But he has not produced one such instance ; and I will tell you more , sir - he cannot produce one ...
prosecuted with unremitting vengeance , and brought to cruel and dishonorable deaths by the violence and injustice of American juries . But he has not produced one such instance ; and I will tell you more , sir - he cannot produce one ...
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... death , canonizes and sanctifies a great character , will not suffer me to censure any part of his conduct . I am afraid to flatter him ; I am sure I am not dis- posed to blame him . Let those who have betrayed him by their adulation ...
... death , canonizes and sanctifies a great character , will not suffer me to censure any part of his conduct . I am afraid to flatter him ; I am sure I am not dis- posed to blame him . Let those who have betrayed him by their adulation ...
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... death ? I therefore , my lords , move , that an humble address be presented to his Majesty , most humbly to advise and beseech his Majesty , " that , in order to open the way towards a happy settlement of the dangerous troubles 50 ...
... death ? I therefore , my lords , move , that an humble address be presented to his Majesty , most humbly to advise and beseech his Majesty , " that , in order to open the way towards a happy settlement of the dangerous troubles 50 ...
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Página 292 - Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and Morality enjoin this conduct ; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Página 291 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity. Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Página 312 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
Página 56 - 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. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 295 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice...
Página 311 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Página 288 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Página 297 - Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat, in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment o"f partaking in the midst of my fellowcitizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government — the ever favorite object of my heart and the happy...
Página 284 - ... to the permanency of your felicity as a People. These will be offered to you with the more freedom, as you can only see in them the disinterested warnings of a parting friend, who can possibly have no personal motive to bias his counsel. Nor can I forget, as an encouragement to it, your indulgent reception of my sentiments on a former and not dissimilar occasion. Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm...
Página 252 - Three millions of People, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.