Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867Little, Brown,, 1867 - 637 pagina's |
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... character , his brilliant military and civil history , have been long familiar to the country . You all know him as one , who , for more than forty years , has been associated with the de- fence and glory of the republic . You have all ...
... character , his brilliant military and civil history , have been long familiar to the country . You all know him as one , who , for more than forty years , has been associated with the de- fence and glory of the republic . You have all ...
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... character , of unimpeachable integrity , evincing in his daily practice and example his respect and rever- ence for morality and religion , does any one here require further assurance , that , having been nominated as our candidate , he ...
... character , of unimpeachable integrity , evincing in his daily practice and example his respect and rever- ence for morality and religion , does any one here require further assurance , that , having been nominated as our candidate , he ...
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... character of the entertainment which may be afforded you , during the brief hour which I may be at liberty to occupy , by any thing of formal or ceremonious discourse . It is not by words of wisdom or of dulness , it is not by argu ...
... character of the entertainment which may be afforded you , during the brief hour which I may be at liberty to occupy , by any thing of formal or ceremonious discourse . It is not by words of wisdom or of dulness , it is not by argu ...
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... character . It is this responsibility , as developed and increased a thousand- fold by the circumstances of the age and of the land in which we live , that I desire to illustrate and enforce . Consider , for a mo- ment , the vast power ...
... character . It is this responsibility , as developed and increased a thousand- fold by the circumstances of the age and of the land in which we live , that I desire to illustrate and enforce . Consider , for a mo- ment , the vast power ...
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... character of his audience . It would certainly be a most ungracious remark for one standing in the immediate presence , and appealing to the immediate indulgence , of so dis- tinguished and brilliant an assembly . Great results , I know ...
... character of his audience . It would certainly be a most ungracious remark for one standing in the immediate presence , and appealing to the immediate indulgence , of so dis- tinguished and brilliant an assembly . Great results , I know ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 635 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent, And many an error by the same example Will rush into the state; it cannot be.
Pagina 71 - And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us?
Pagina 289 - I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Pagina 328 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free!
Pagina 573 - ... his mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Pagina 217 - 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.
Pagina 446 - But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love ; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Pagina 87 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Pagina 648 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Pagina 280 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.