The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American Authors, of the Most Admired Specimens of Congressional, Forensic, Pulpit and Popular Eloquence, with Dialogues and Poetical Extracts, Adapted to Public Recitation : and an Introduction, Embracing the Principle Rules Relating to Delivery and ActionPublished and sold by Daniel Fenton, Thomas T. Stiles, printer, 1815 - 324 էջ |
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... glory , the seeds of which were supposed to be sown , with the declaration of war . When we ask , sir , for the causes of these disappoint- ments , we are told that they are owing to the opposition which the war encounters , in this ...
... glory , the seeds of which were supposed to be sown , with the declaration of war . When we ask , sir , for the causes of these disappoint- ments , we are told that they are owing to the opposition which the war encounters , in this ...
Էջ 53
... glory , from which it has been dashed by heartless and corrupt men in their despicable contests , for personal aggrandizement . If the country , two years hence , is to be governed by wiser and abler men , I see no reason to conceal the ...
... glory , from which it has been dashed by heartless and corrupt men in their despicable contests , for personal aggrandizement . If the country , two years hence , is to be governed by wiser and abler men , I see no reason to conceal the ...
Էջ 56
... glory and benefit of our institutions , provided only they were preserved to the country . When at last , the infuriate passion of party , and the unrelenting spirit of persecution succeeded in overthrowing and sweeping away most of ...
... glory and benefit of our institutions , provided only they were preserved to the country . When at last , the infuriate passion of party , and the unrelenting spirit of persecution succeeded in overthrowing and sweeping away most of ...
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... glory to be obtained : -it would avail nothing ! To such politicians , principle , feeling , pity , justice , are nothing ! -revenge is every thing ! I know of no legitimate basis of political , but moral duties ; -no spring from which ...
... glory to be obtained : -it would avail nothing ! To such politicians , principle , feeling , pity , justice , are nothing ! -revenge is every thing ! I know of no legitimate basis of political , but moral duties ; -no spring from which ...
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... glory ! Sure- ly there can be no glory in seven millions conquering five hundred thousand . A giant crushing a pigmy ! A giant who could glory in such a triumph , must have a pigmy spirit indeed ! Nor is this all . It cannot in any ...
... glory ! Sure- ly there can be no glory in seven millions conquering five hundred thousand . A giant crushing a pigmy ! A giant who could glory in such a triumph , must have a pigmy spirit indeed ! Nor is this all . It cannot in any ...
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Էջ 303 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Էջ 316 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Էջ 76 - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Էջ 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Էջ 322 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Էջ 313 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gem'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Էջ 316 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Էջ 314 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...