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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... ruin irretrievable , and that we are lost ir- recoverably . But , sir , while there is yet life , there is still hope . I will not , must not , dare not , abandon the country . If deserted by its true friends now , it will sink so low ...
... ruin irretrievable , and that we are lost ir- recoverably . But , sir , while there is yet life , there is still hope . I will not , must not , dare not , abandon the country . If deserted by its true friends now , it will sink so low ...
Page 54
... ruin ; to assist in forging chains for posterity if not for ourselves . I confess , sir , I have the less difficulty in voting sup- plies , and uniting to recover public credit , since the dis- closure made to the house by the President ...
... ruin ; to assist in forging chains for posterity if not for ourselves . I confess , sir , I have the less difficulty in voting sup- plies , and uniting to recover public credit , since the dis- closure made to the house by the President ...
Page 55
... ruin of the country . The root of the evil is not this , or that blunder ; but it is the political system of administration , not only in relation to the finances , but to the general policy of the government . It has been tried ...
... ruin of the country . The root of the evil is not this , or that blunder ; but it is the political system of administration , not only in relation to the finances , but to the general policy of the government . It has been tried ...
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... ruin of his creatures . After the conclusion of the speech , from which the two preceding are extracted , Mr. Clay ( speaker ) delivered a very long speech , throughout the whole of which he took occasion to make very offensive and ...
... ruin of his creatures . After the conclusion of the speech , from which the two preceding are extracted , Mr. Clay ( speaker ) delivered a very long speech , throughout the whole of which he took occasion to make very offensive and ...
Page 70
... ruin by the obstinacy and madness of his conduct , should presume to think that any man else could lower it more than he has , is , I own , rather extra- ordinary . I desire to know , and I ask the minister to inform me , if he can , -I ...
... ruin by the obstinacy and madness of his conduct , should presume to think that any man else could lower it more than he has , is , I own , rather extra- ordinary . I desire to know , and I ask the minister to inform me , if he can , -I ...
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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...