Orators of the American RevolutionBaker and Scribner, 1848 - 456 pagina's |
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Pagina 49
... admiring gratitude , the reward of a nation's love - our WASHINGTON ! " The congress of '76 has assembled , and solemn prayer has just been offered for the divine blessing on the coun- try and in behalf of the patriotic cause . Let us ...
... admiring gratitude , the reward of a nation's love - our WASHINGTON ! " The congress of '76 has assembled , and solemn prayer has just been offered for the divine blessing on the coun- try and in behalf of the patriotic cause . Let us ...
Pagina 81
... admiration , of his time . But the mutilated fragments that yet survive are colossal , and with these for our guide we can in faint idea reconstruct the noble proportions of the original works , as Cuvier built up the Mastedon from a ...
... admiration , of his time . But the mutilated fragments that yet survive are colossal , and with these for our guide we can in faint idea reconstruct the noble proportions of the original works , as Cuvier built up the Mastedon from a ...
Pagina 86
... up , from its profound depths , cinders , rocks , and rivers of flame . It is only the grand and extraordinary that is admirable and surprising . The passions are powerful advocates , and 86 ORATORS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION .
... up , from its profound depths , cinders , rocks , and rivers of flame . It is only the grand and extraordinary that is admirable and surprising . The passions are powerful advocates , and 86 ORATORS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION .
Pagina 90
... admiration of his audience . His eloquence showed but little imagination , yet it was instinct with the fire of passion . " It may be not unjustly said of Otis , as of Judge Marshall , that " He was one of those rare beings that seem to ...
... admiration of his audience . His eloquence showed but little imagination , yet it was instinct with the fire of passion . " It may be not unjustly said of Otis , as of Judge Marshall , that " He was one of those rare beings that seem to ...
Pagina 135
... admirable translation , by the illustrious . poet of Twickenham . " When Atreus ' son harangued the listening train , Just was his sense , and his expression plain ; His words succinct yet full , without a fault , He spoke no more than ...
... admirable translation , by the illustrious . poet of Twickenham . " When Atreus ' son harangued the listening train , Just was his sense , and his expression plain ; His words succinct yet full , without a fault , He spoke no more than ...
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admiration ALEXANDER HAMILTON American argument arms audience battle beauty blood bold bosom Boston British career cause character Cicero Colonies command Congress debate Declaration defended Demosthenes distinguished divine early earth elegant eloquence Emmet energy England exalted excellence excited fame Faneuil Hall fear feeling fire Fisher Ames foes force freedom genius glorious Governor graceful Hamilton Hancock heart heaven hero highest honor House of Burgesses human influence inspiration intellect James Otis John Adams John Randolph Joseph Warren Josiah Quincy language learned liberty light living mankind manner master ment mental mighty mind nature never noble occasion orator oratorical passions Patrick Henry patriotic person Pinkney political popular possessed principles profound Quincy remarkable Revolution sagacious Samuel Adams says scene sentiments soul speak speaker speech spirit splendid splendor storm struggle sublime talents thing thought tion tones voice Warren Wirt words Writs of Assistance
Populaire passages
Pagina 167 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect. unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Pagina 23 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Pagina 285 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Pagina 252 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Pagina 36 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
Pagina 174 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.
Pagina 30 - ... proud of being descended from men, who have set the world an example of founding civil institutions on the great and united principles of human freedom and human knowledge. To us, their children, the story of their labors and sufferings can never be without its interest.
Pagina 115 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of the own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Pagina 19 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Pagina 205 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.