The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American Authors, of the Most Admired Specimens of Congressional, Forensic, Pulpit and Popular Eloquence, with Dialogues and Poetical Extracts, Adapted to Public Recitation : and an Introduction, Embracing the Principle Rules Relating to Delivery and ActionPublished and sold by Daniel Fenton, Thomas T. Stiles, printer, 1815 - 324 Seiten |
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... Canada , by Mr. Clay , 32 filling the army , by Mr. Webster , 36 Continuation , 38 , 42 , 45 , 48 , 51 Extract from a speech relative to the Bank bill , by Mr. Hanson , 53 Continuation , O · Extract from a speech on the British Treaty ...
... Canada , by Mr. Clay , 32 filling the army , by Mr. Webster , 36 Continuation , 38 , 42 , 45 , 48 , 51 Extract from a speech relative to the Bank bill , by Mr. Hanson , 53 Continuation , O · Extract from a speech on the British Treaty ...
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... Canadian trade , and by having no resting place in this country , her means of annoying us will be diminish- ed . The idea I am now about to advance is at war , I know , with the sentiments of the gentleman from Virgi- nia ; I am ...
... Canadian trade , and by having no resting place in this country , her means of annoying us will be diminish- ed . The idea I am now about to advance is at war , I know , with the sentiments of the gentleman from Virgi- nia ; I am ...
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... Canada is to conquer herself she is to be subdued by the principles of frater- nity . The people of that country are first to be seduced from their allegiance , and converted into trajtors as pre- paratory to the making them good ...
... Canada is to conquer herself she is to be subdued by the principles of frater- nity . The people of that country are first to be seduced from their allegiance , and converted into trajtors as pre- paratory to the making them good ...
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... Canadian cam- paign , ) coarse woollens , and every article of first neces- sity , three or four hundred per cent . And now that by our own acts we have brought ourselves into this unpre- cedented condition , we must get out of it in ...
... Canadian cam- paign , ) coarse woollens , and every article of first neces- sity , three or four hundred per cent . And now that by our own acts we have brought ourselves into this unpre- cedented condition , we must get out of it in ...
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... Canada . Having done so much towards its improve- ment by the exercise of " our restrictive energies , " we begin to think the labourer worthy of his hire , and to put in claim for our portion . Suppose it ours - are we any nearer to ...
... Canada . Having done so much towards its improve- ment by the exercise of " our restrictive energies , " we begin to think the labourer worthy of his hire , and to put in claim for our portion . Suppose it ours - are we any nearer to ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aaron Burr affection American arms army believe BENJAMIN RUSH bill blessings blood bosom Britain British Brutus calamity Canada cation cause character charity Christ Christian citizens command commerce constitution corrupted danger death defend Demosthenes distress dreadful duty earth enemy eternal exertions Extract eyes fame feel FISHER AMES force France friends gentlemen give glory Gospel hand happiness hath heart Heaven honour hope human interest invasion invasion of Canada Ireland Jacobins justice libel liberty look Lord mankind maritime rights means measures ment militia mind nation nature never object opinion party passions patriots peace political prayers present principles religion republican revolution ruin sans-culottes scene sentiments sion soul speak speaker spect Speech spirit suffering sword Syph Syphax tears tence thee thing thou tion truth virtue voice Washington whole William Cobbett words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 303 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Seite 316 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Seite 76 - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Seite 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Seite 322 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Seite 313 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gem'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Seite 316 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Seite 314 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...