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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... danger has disappeared , we can again assume our peaceful attitude , without endangering the liberties of the people . Against these considerations , weighty in themselves , your committee felt themselves constrained to decide , in ...
... danger has disappeared , we can again assume our peaceful attitude , without endangering the liberties of the people . Against these considerations , weighty in themselves , your committee felt themselves constrained to decide , in ...
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... danger was ever apprehended . But should we therefore be unobservant spectators of the progress of society within the last twenty years of the silent , but powerful change wrought by time and chance , upon its composition and temper ...
... danger was ever apprehended . But should we therefore be unobservant spectators of the progress of society within the last twenty years of the silent , but powerful change wrought by time and chance , upon its composition and temper ...
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... danger . The centinel upon the watch - tower has told them all's well . When the midnight robber has sallied forth from his covert and prowls about the streets for his prey ; when the incendiary has clapt his torch , and the city is ...
... danger . The centinel upon the watch - tower has told them all's well . When the midnight robber has sallied forth from his covert and prowls about the streets for his prey ; when the incendiary has clapt his torch , and the city is ...
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... danger of flinching , will not fail to get what they demand , if not by the votes of this house , by the bayonet . I therefore warn them to see the business as it really is . A scheme of invasion , which , as the French emperor once ...
... danger of flinching , will not fail to get what they demand , if not by the votes of this house , by the bayonet . I therefore warn them to see the business as it really is . A scheme of invasion , which , as the French emperor once ...
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... danger of revolution wherewith it is threatened . The Philosophers are the pioneers of revolution . They advance always in front and prepare the way , by preach- ing infidelity , and weakening the respect of the people for ancient ...
... danger of revolution wherewith it is threatened . The Philosophers are the pioneers of revolution . They advance always in front and prepare the way , by preach- ing infidelity , and weakening the respect of the people for ancient ...
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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...