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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... pass , and you then become faint hearted , remember that you have abandoned your old principles , and trod in the paths of your predecessors . According to my view of this subject , we now stand on the bank ; one movement more , the ...
... pass , and you then become faint hearted , remember that you have abandoned your old principles , and trod in the paths of your predecessors . According to my view of this subject , we now stand on the bank ; one movement more , the ...
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... pass should Eng- land be unable to wield it - what would be your condi- tion ? What would be the situation of your sea ports and their seafaring inhabitants ? Ask Hamburg - Lubec ? -- Ask Savannah ? What ! sir , when their privateers ...
... pass should Eng- land be unable to wield it - what would be your condi- tion ? What would be the situation of your sea ports and their seafaring inhabitants ? Ask Hamburg - Lubec ? -- Ask Savannah ? What ! sir , when their privateers ...
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... pass from New - York to New - Orleans ; from the upper country on James River to Richmond . Sir , when did submission to one wrong induce an adversary to cease his encroachments on the party submitting ? But you are told that you ought ...
... pass from New - York to New - Orleans ; from the upper country on James River to Richmond . Sir , when did submission to one wrong induce an adversary to cease his encroachments on the party submitting ? But you are told that you ought ...
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... pass it , because they do not chuse to pass it . Offering no serious obsta- cle to their actual power , it rises , like a Chinese wall , against their sentiments and their feelings . Continuation of Mr. Webster's Speech , on the bill ...
... pass it , because they do not chuse to pass it . Offering no serious obsta- cle to their actual power , it rises , like a Chinese wall , against their sentiments and their feelings . Continuation of Mr. Webster's Speech , on the bill ...
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... pass the fair limits of parliamentary discussion is ob- vious from this , that the honourable speaker himself , then presiding in this house , neither stopped me himself , nor permitted others to do it , when it was attempted . So far ...
... pass the fair limits of parliamentary discussion is ob- vious from this , that the honourable speaker himself , then presiding in this house , neither stopped me himself , nor permitted others to do it , when it was attempted . So far ...
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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
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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...