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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... secure that in him which is immortal . Milton says that poetry ought to be simple , sensuous , impassioned . Well , Emerson's poetry is seldom either sim- ple , or sensuous , or impassioned . In general it lacks direct- ness ; it lacks ...
... secure that in him which is immortal . Milton says that poetry ought to be simple , sensuous , impassioned . Well , Emerson's poetry is seldom either sim- ple , or sensuous , or impassioned . In general it lacks direct- ness ; it lacks ...
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... after four generations have passed , you and I must not forget the service which had won such sor- His monument , thank God and our fathers , is secure ! row . Listen to what Daniel Webster said of him - who SONS OF MASSACHUSETTS 8389.
... after four generations have passed , you and I must not forget the service which had won such sor- His monument , thank God and our fathers , is secure ! row . Listen to what Daniel Webster said of him - who SONS OF MASSACHUSETTS 8389.
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... secure this reformation , rules regulating methods of appointment and promotion were established , and have been tried . My efforts for such reformation shall be continued to the best of my judgment . The spirit of the rules adopted ...
... secure this reformation , rules regulating methods of appointment and promotion were established , and have been tried . My efforts for such reformation shall be continued to the best of my judgment . The spirit of the rules adopted ...
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... secure the one principle upon which the party is a most harmonious unit , namely , getting control of the government in all its branches . I have been in some part of every State lately in rebellion within the last year . I was most ...
... secure the one principle upon which the party is a most harmonious unit , namely , getting control of the government in all its branches . I have been in some part of every State lately in rebellion within the last year . I was most ...
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... . The colored people , who as slaves were debarred from education , regard the right to learn as one of the highest privileges of freemen . The ballot gives them the power to secure that privilege . All parties CAMPAIGN SPEECH 8419.
... . The colored people , who as slaves were debarred from education , regard the right to learn as one of the highest privileges of freemen . The ballot gives them the power to secure that privilege . All parties CAMPAIGN SPEECH 8419.
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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.