The World's Great Classics: Orations of American oratorsTimothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne Colonial Press, 1899 - Literature Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor. |
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... look for them elsewhere ; they will not be found fixed and quivering in the object at which they were aimed . The honorable member complained that I had slept on his speech . I must have slept on it , or not slept at all . The mo- ment ...
... look for them elsewhere ; they will not be found fixed and quivering in the object at which they were aimed . The honorable member complained that I had slept on his speech . I must have slept on it , or not slept at all . The mo- ment ...
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... look ! lo ! If I stand here , I saw him ! " their eyeballs were seared ( was it not so , sir ? ) who had thought to shield themselves , by concealing their own hand , and laying the imputation of the crime on a low and hireling agency ...
... look ! lo ! If I stand here , I saw him ! " their eyeballs were seared ( was it not so , sir ? ) who had thought to shield themselves , by concealing their own hand , and laying the imputation of the crime on a low and hireling agency ...
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... look a little at the history of this matter . When the present constitution was submitted for the ratifica- tion of the people , there were those who imagined that the powers of the government which it proposed to establish , might ...
... look a little at the history of this matter . When the present constitution was submitted for the ratifica- tion of the people , there were those who imagined that the powers of the government which it proposed to establish , might ...
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... States . Whatever there be of that policy in the country , no part of it is hers . If it has a local habitation , the honorable member has probably seen , by this time , where to look for it ; and if REPLY TO HAYNE 23.
... States . Whatever there be of that policy in the country , no part of it is hers . If it has a local habitation , the honorable member has probably seen , by this time , where to look for it ; and if REPLY TO HAYNE 23.
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... look upon all these objects as connected with the common good , fairly embraced in its object and its terms ; he , on the contrary , deems them all , if good at all , only local good . This is our difference . The interrogatory which he ...
... look upon all these objects as connected with the common good , fairly embraced in its object and its terms ; he , on the contrary , deems them all , if good at all , only local good . This is our difference . The interrogatory which he ...
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Page 238 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war, — These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 226 - NEITHER PARTY EXPECTED FOR THE WAR THE MAGNITUDE OR THE DURATION WHICH IT HAS ALREADY ATTAINED. NEITHER ANTICIPATED THAT THE CAUSE OF THE CONFLICT MIGHT CEASE WITH OR EVEN BEFORE THE CONFLICT ITSELF SHOULD ' CEASE. EACH LOOKED FOR AN EASIER TRIUMPH AND A RESULT LESS FUNDAMENTAL AND ASTOUNDING.
Page 226 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Page 291 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 217 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 225 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses...
Page 260 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 226 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his...
Page 226 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 217 - I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...