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 pages |
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... constitution ; to embark in a com- mon cause with France and be dragged at the wheels of the car of some Burr or Bonaparte . For a gentleman from Tennessee or Gennessee , or Lake Champlain , there may be some prospect of advantage ...
... constitution ; to embark in a com- mon cause with France and be dragged at the wheels of the car of some Burr or Bonaparte . For a gentleman from Tennessee or Gennessee , or Lake Champlain , there may be some prospect of advantage ...
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... Constitution , some person , to whose opening vision the future had been disclosed , had appeared among them . He would have seen there the patriots who rocked the cradle of liberty in America . He would have seen there states- men and ...
... Constitution , some person , to whose opening vision the future had been disclosed , had appeared among them . He would have seen there the patriots who rocked the cradle of liberty in America . He would have seen there states- men and ...
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... constitution had been laid before them , they would have ratified it - I ask you , if the hand of Hancock himself would not sooner have committed it to the flames ? -If then , sir , they did not believe , and from the terms of the ...
... constitution had been laid before them , they would have ratified it - I ask you , if the hand of Hancock himself would not sooner have committed it to the flames ? -If then , sir , they did not believe , and from the terms of the ...
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... constitution . He will vouch for the truth of my remark . He will tell you the motives which actuated him , and his associates , as well as the whole country , at that time . The faith of this nation is pledged to its com- merce ...
... constitution . He will vouch for the truth of my remark . He will tell you the motives which actuated him , and his associates , as well as the whole country , at that time . The faith of this nation is pledged to its com- merce ...
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... constitution , they must sprinkle it with blood , with my blood ; for I will not outlive the liberties of my country . Under the constitution the country can be saved , or let it fall . Consign this bill , at once , to the fate it ...
... constitution , they must sprinkle it with blood , with my blood ; for I will not outlive the liberties of my country . Under the constitution the country can be saved , or let it fall . Consign this bill , at once , to the fate it ...
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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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Page 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!
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...