Washington's Farewell Address, and Webster's Bunker Hill OrationsMacmillan Company, 1915 - 131 pages |
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... Monument . It may be that the interest will not stop until all the occasional addresses mentioned in the Introduction have been read . The helps provided in this volume give facts that were known to many of the original hearers of the ...
... Monument . It may be that the interest will not stop until all the occasional addresses mentioned in the Introduction have been read . The helps provided in this volume give facts that were known to many of the original hearers of the ...
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... MONUMENT VI . THE FAREWELL ADDRESS VII . THE FIRST BUNKER HILL ORATION VIII . THE SECOND BUNKER HILL ORATION IX ... MONUMENT 31 THE COMPLETION OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT 66 NOTES • 113 INDEX TO NOTES 129 • INTRODUCTION I GEORGE ...
... MONUMENT VI . THE FAREWELL ADDRESS VII . THE FIRST BUNKER HILL ORATION VIII . THE SECOND BUNKER HILL ORATION IX ... MONUMENT 31 THE COMPLETION OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT 66 NOTES • 113 INDEX TO NOTES 129 • INTRODUCTION I GEORGE ...
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... when ammunition failed . In both of these ora- tions on Bunker Hill , Webster tells in eloquent lan- guage of the glory and the consequences of the battle . V THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT THE first monument on the xlil INTRODUCTION.
... when ammunition failed . In both of these ora- tions on Bunker Hill , Webster tells in eloquent lan- guage of the glory and the consequences of the battle . V THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT THE first monument on the xlil INTRODUCTION.
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... monument , made in marble , is now found within the Bunker Hill monument . The permanent monument was to have a nobler object , as Webster declares , with glowing eloquence in his orations , than the commemoration of the death of a ...
... monument , made in marble , is now found within the Bunker Hill monument . The permanent monument was to have a nobler object , as Webster declares , with glowing eloquence in his orations , than the commemoration of the death of a ...
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... monument , and it was 1827 before the work began . Mr. Solomon Willard was the architect , and Mr. James S. Savage the builder . The fifty - five thousand dollars then on hand lasted but a short time . In 1834 more money was raised and ...
... monument , and it was 1827 before the work began . Mr. Solomon Willard was the architect , and Mr. James S. Savage the builder . The fifty - five thousand dollars then on hand lasted but a short time . In 1834 more money was raised and ...
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Page 1 - I beg you, at the same time, to do me the justice to be assured, that this resolution has not been taken, without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country ; and that, in withdrawing the tender of service, which silence, in my situation, might imply, I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest ; no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness ; but am supported by a full conviction, that the step...
Page 25 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.
Page 5 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Page 6 - Citizens by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Page 3 - In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved country, for the many honors it has conferred upon me ; still more for the steadfast confidence with which it has supported me...
Page 21 - The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Page 20 - OBSERVE good faith and justice towards all nations, cultivate peace and harmony with all ; religion and morality enjoin, this conduct ; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 20 - ... timely disbursements to prepare for danger, frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace, to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.
Page 12 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 18 - Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation DESERT the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ; and let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.