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... strong , agitation cannot be too violent , to show to the world with what injustice our fair claims are met , and under what tyranny the people suffer . The clause which does away with trial by jury ; what is it , if it is not the ...
... strong , agitation cannot be too violent , to show to the world with what injustice our fair claims are met , and under what tyranny the people suffer . The clause which does away with trial by jury ; what is it , if it is not the ...
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... strong , steady current of sound , rational , enlightened sentiment always in circulation through the community . Let them remember that false doctrines will not wait to be corrected by ponderous folios or cumbrous quartos . The thin ...
... strong , steady current of sound , rational , enlightened sentiment always in circulation through the community . Let them remember that false doctrines will not wait to be corrected by ponderous folios or cumbrous quartos . The thin ...
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... strong affection its early growth has ceased to beat . IMPRESSMENT OF AMERICAN SAILORS . - CLAY . IF Great Britain desires a mark , by which she can know her own subjects , let her give them an ear - mark . The colors that float from ...
... strong affection its early growth has ceased to beat . IMPRESSMENT OF AMERICAN SAILORS . - CLAY . IF Great Britain desires a mark , by which she can know her own subjects , let her give them an ear - mark . The colors that float from ...
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... strong passions excited , nothing is valuable in speech , further than it is con- nected with high intellectual and moral endowments . Clearness , force , and earnestness are the qualities which produce convic- tion . True eloquence ...
... strong passions excited , nothing is valuable in speech , further than it is con- nected with high intellectual and moral endowments . Clearness , force , and earnestness are the qualities which produce convic- tion . True eloquence ...
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... strong hand of power has bolted them in the dungeon of despotism . Review the present situation of the nations of Europe , which is pretended to be the freest quarter of the globe . Cast your eyes on the countries called free there ...
... strong hand of power has bolted them in the dungeon of despotism . Review the present situation of the nations of Europe , which is pretended to be the freest quarter of the globe . Cast your eyes on the countries called free there ...
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American arms beautiful snow behold bells beneath bill of rights Bingen bless blood brave breath Brutus built by blood Cæsar Catiline Christian constitution crime dare darkness dead death Demosthenes dread dream dying earth eloquence Elsie England father feel freedom friends genius glorious glory graptolites grave Greece hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre holy honor hope human immortal intemperance justice land liberty light live Lochinvar look Lord maddening bowl mighty mind moral morning nation native fastnesses never Nevermore night noble o'er oppression patriotism proud Quoth the Raven religion Ring Rome Senate sentiment Shamus soul speak spirit stand stars sword tears tell thee things thou thought thousand tion truth unto virtue voice wave word young
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Page 263 - 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 287 - What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.
Page 263 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 245 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore, Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore ! " Quoth the raven,
Page 262 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Page 179 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Page 246 - Nevermore." "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! prophet still, if bird or devil! Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted — On this home by Horror haunted — tell me truly, I implore: Is there — is there balm in Gilead? — tell me — tell me, I implore!
Page 182 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault ; And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Page 183 - Nervii. Look, in this place ran Cassius' dagger through; See what a rent the envious Casca made; Through this the well-beloved Brutus...
Page 76 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.