The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to Ư the Present Time, Volume 8F. P. Kaiser, 1899 The text of thousands of speeches from all historical periods through the 19th century arranged in alphabetical order,. |
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Página 2856
... necessity and perhaps be deemed worthy of pardon ; but being themselves sovereign and supreme , they must likewise be themselves answerable for their behavior . For how could you ever punish their crimes if you admit as an excuse for ...
... necessity and perhaps be deemed worthy of pardon ; but being themselves sovereign and supreme , they must likewise be themselves answerable for their behavior . For how could you ever punish their crimes if you admit as an excuse for ...
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... necessity they must , the truth of what has been asserted against them , they can boast of no gallant action to blunt the edge of your resentment . They cannot elude the accusation by showing , like many others of your citizens , their ...
... necessity they must , the truth of what has been asserted against them , they can boast of no gallant action to blunt the edge of your resentment . They cannot elude the accusation by showing , like many others of your citizens , their ...
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... necessity of struggling against the calamities which they occasioned might prevent you from oppos- ing that tyranny which they intended to establish . That Eratosthenes was one of these censors I can prove ; not by the testimony of his ...
... necessity of struggling against the calamities which they occasioned might prevent you from oppos- ing that tyranny which they intended to establish . That Eratosthenes was one of these censors I can prove ; not by the testimony of his ...
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... necessity for witnesses ; however , let them be called , as I should here incline to make a pause , and some of you may be fond of hearing the same truths from different persons . [ The witnesses . ] I shall now speak of Theramenes in ...
... necessity for witnesses ; however , let them be called , as I should here incline to make a pause , and some of you may be fond of hearing the same truths from different persons . [ The witnesses . ] I shall now speak of Theramenes in ...
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... necessity of taking pun- ishment on the authors of them . And first , you who remained in the city , consider the severity of their government [ the gov- ernment of the Thirty ] ; you were reduced into such a situa tion as to be obliged ...
... necessity of taking pun- ishment on the authors of them . And first , you who remained in the city , consider the severity of their government [ the gov- ernment of the Thirty ] ; you were reduced into such a situa tion as to be obliged ...
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The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present ..., Volume 8 David Josiah Brewer Visualização completa - 1899 |
The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present ..., Volume 8 David Josiah Brewer Visualização completa - 1900 |
The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present ..., Volume 8 David Josiah Brewer Visualização completa - 1899 |
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American arms assembly Athens blessed brutes called cause character citizens civil Congress conscience consider Constitution Corn Laws Cosenza court crimes Cuyahoga County danger death declare defense Delivered duty Earl of Strafford empire enemies England English Eratosthenes evil faith favor federal feel France freedom friends give glory happiness hath heart honorable gentleman hope House House of Commons human interests Ireland Irish John Brown joyful sound justice King kingdom land liberty literature live Lord Lysias means Member ment militia mind Mirabeau moral Mullaghmast nation nature necessity never noble object opinion oppression orator Parliament patriotism peace persons Polemarchus political present principles reason religion Republic Rome Scotland soul sovereign speech spirit standing army Theramenes Thirty Tyrants thought tion trumpets truth Union Virginia virtue Whigs whole words Writs of Assistance
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Página 3223 - Not as the conqueror comes They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame. Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ; — They shook the depths of the desert gloom, With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Página 2972 - ... and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, " This is the way, walk ye in it," when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Página 3125 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Página 3001 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 2999 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Página 3019 - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Página 3002 - Why else was this nation chosen before any other, that out of her as out of Sion should be proclaimed and sounded forth the first tidings and trumpet of reformation to all Europe ? And had it not been the obstinate perverseness of our prelates against the divine and admirable spirit of...
Página 3121 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 3078 - Lord, dost thou not care that my sister did leave me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. But the Lord answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and troubled about many things : but one thing is needful : for Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Página 2999 - Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...