Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason, 1848 - Speeches, addresses, etc., American |
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... purpose , in a period of less general intelligence , or more without plan and by accident ; or under circumstances ... purposes of the state . Political science among the Greeks seems never to have extended to the comprehension of a ...
... purpose , in a period of less general intelligence , or more without plan and by accident ; or under circumstances ... purposes of the state . Political science among the Greeks seems never to have extended to the comprehension of a ...
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... purpose to observe , that nothing existed in the character of Grecian emigrations , or in the spirit and ... purposes , or give the ability to execute them . Whatever restraints on civil liberty , or whatever abuses in religious worship ...
... purpose to observe , that nothing existed in the character of Grecian emigrations , or in the spirit and ... purposes , or give the ability to execute them . Whatever restraints on civil liberty , or whatever abuses in religious worship ...
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... purpose of those who went thither , was to engage in that species of agriculture , suited to the soil and climate , which seems to bear more resemblance to com- merce , than to the hard and plain tillage of New England . The great ...
... purpose of those who went thither , was to engage in that species of agriculture , suited to the soil and climate , which seems to bear more resemblance to com- merce , than to the hard and plain tillage of New England . The great ...
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... purpose , they had yet committed themselves to Heaven , and the elements ; and a thousand leagues of water soon interposed to separate them forever from the region which gave them birth . A new existence awaited them here ; and when ...
... purpose , they had yet committed themselves to Heaven , and the elements ; and a thousand leagues of water soon interposed to separate them forever from the region which gave them birth . A new existence awaited them here ; and when ...
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Daniel Webster. reign , and during every administration , of the settled purpose of the colonies to acquire direct independence and positive sovereignty . " Perhaps this may be stated somewhat too strongly ; but it cannot be denied ...
Daniel Webster. reign , and during every administration , of the settled purpose of the colonies to acquire direct independence and positive sovereignty . " Perhaps this may be stated somewhat too strongly ; but it cannot be denied ...
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Page 80 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Page 60 - VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed!
Page 87 - They will celebrate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires, and illuminations. On its annual return they will shed tears, — copious, gushing tears ; not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy.
Page 60 - You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and successful repulse; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance; a thousand bosoms freely and fearlessly bared in an instant to whatever of terror there may be in war and death ; — all these you have witnessed, but you witness them no more. All is...
Page 425 - I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Page 451 - The assassin enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon ; he winds up the ascent of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber.
Page 406 - When I shall be found, sir, in my place here in the Senate or elsewhere to sneer at public merit because it happens to spring up beyond the little limits of my own State or neighborhood ; when I refuse, for any such cause or for any cause, the homage due to American talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion...
Page 59 - We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object...
Page 128 - By the law of the land, is most clearly intended, the general law; a law, which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 407 - ... feeling, than Massachusetts and South Carolina. Would to God that harmony might again return ! Shoulder to shoulder they went through the Revolution ; hand in hand they stood round the administration of Washington, and felt his own great arm lean on them for support. Unkind feeling, if it exist, alienation and distrust, are the growth, unnatural to such soils, of false principles since sown. They are weeds, the seeds of which that same great arm never scattered. Mr. President, I shall enter on...