The Patriotic Speaker: Consisting of Specimens of Modern Eloquence, Together with Poetical Extracts Adapted for Recitation, and Dramatic Pieces for Exhibitions |
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... rests with us to solve the great problem in human society , -to settle , and that forever , the momentous question , -whether mankind can be trusted with a purely popular system of Government . One might almost think , without ...
... rests with us to solve the great problem in human society , -to settle , and that forever , the momentous question , -whether mankind can be trusted with a purely popular system of Government . One might almost think , without ...
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... rest with satisfaction , in view of the future . It negatives the existence of any conspiracy against our peace in the free States of the confederacy . Neither the plan nor the execution revealed any higher intelligence or greater power ...
... rest with satisfaction , in view of the future . It negatives the existence of any conspiracy against our peace in the free States of the confederacy . Neither the plan nor the execution revealed any higher intelligence or greater power ...
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... rest , and food and fire In vain he never must require . " I am not , sir , a believer in the doctrine that a bad , infa- mous , and unconstitutional enactment - I cannot call it law— should be obeyed until it is repealed . I have not ...
... rest , and food and fire In vain he never must require . " I am not , sir , a believer in the doctrine that a bad , infa- mous , and unconstitutional enactment - I cannot call it law— should be obeyed until it is repealed . I have not ...
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... rest upon the theory of our Constitution , and upon the foundation which the fathers laid . You may shatter , if you can , this fair fabric of our free- dom ; you may make desolate the temple , and strike down the statue ; but the ...
... rest upon the theory of our Constitution , and upon the foundation which the fathers laid . You may shatter , if you can , this fair fabric of our free- dom ; you may make desolate the temple , and strike down the statue ; but the ...
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... rest . But one other , Fort Sumter is left . It stands protected by the national flag , and its defence , and the honor of the nation , are , thank God , in the keeping of a faithful and gal- lant soldier . The name of ANDERSON already ...
... rest . But one other , Fort Sumter is left . It stands protected by the national flag , and its defence , and the honor of the nation , are , thank God , in the keeping of a faithful and gal- lant soldier . The name of ANDERSON already ...
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Popular passages
Page 248 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 336 - UP from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.
Page 422 - Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.
Page 338 - She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Page 259 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 205 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.
Page 338 - But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!
Page 415 - Thou, too, sail on. O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 84 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national territories and to overrun us here in these free states? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively.
Page 255 - Thou too, hoar Mount! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene Into the depth of clouds, that veil thy breast Thou too again, stupendous Mountain! thou That as I raise my head, awhile bowed low In adoration, upward from thy base Slow travelling with dim eyes suffused with tears, Solemnly seemest, like a vapoury cloud, To rise before me - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of incense, from the Earth!