Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Band 20Mayo Williamson Hazeltine P. F. Collier & Son, 1905 - 11114 Seiten |
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... American Scholar ... 8651 Oration at Concord ..... 8668 Eulogy of Wendell Phillips ..................... . 8699 Cox The Beauties of Diplomacy ....... 8721 Revival of American Shipping .............................. . 8730 KING On the ...
... American Scholar ... 8651 Oration at Concord ..... 8668 Eulogy of Wendell Phillips ..................... . 8699 Cox The Beauties of Diplomacy ....... 8721 Revival of American Shipping .............................. . 8730 KING On the ...
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... America to lecture . His death occurred April 18 , 1888 , at Liverpool , where he had gone to meet his daugh- ter , who had married an American . Outwardly somewhat cold and formal , he is shown by his letters and the testimony of his ...
... America to lecture . His death occurred April 18 , 1888 , at Liverpool , where he had gone to meet his daugh- ter , who had married an American . Outwardly somewhat cold and formal , he is shown by his letters and the testimony of his ...
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... American critic . Fifty or sixty passages in Emerson's poems , says this critic , - who had doubtless himself been nourished on Emerson's writings , and held them justly dear , fifty or sixty passages from Emerson's poems have already ...
... American critic . Fifty or sixty passages in Emerson's poems , says this critic , - who had doubtless himself been nourished on Emerson's writings , and held them justly dear , fifty or sixty passages from Emerson's poems have already ...
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... America , I cannot well avoid saying something about the prospects of society in the United States . It is a topic ... American patriotism on my side , instead of rous- ing it against me . And it so happens that the paramount thoughts ...
... America , I cannot well avoid saying something about the prospects of society in the United States . It is a topic ... American patriotism on my side , instead of rous- ing it against me . And it so happens that the paramount thoughts ...
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... American ; the British constitution , says an Englishman ; the civilizing mission of France , says a Frenchman . But Plato and the sages , when they are asked what is saving , answer : " To love righteousness and to be convinced of the ...
... American ; the British constitution , says an Englishman ; the civilizing mission of France , says a Frenchman . But Plato and the sages , when they are asked what is saving , answer : " To love righteousness and to be convinced of the ...
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Seite 8661 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Seite 8573 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
Seite 8751 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Seite 8328 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Seite 8325 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Seite 8746 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
Seite 8555 - We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, ' that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed...
Seite 8347 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Seite 8338 - Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and. if we will tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best.
Seite 8422 - On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life, yielding to partial and temporary departures from necessity.