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 sider |
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Side 13
... sion , we deemed it a duty to take time for deliberation ; we thought it better to encounter the charge of having acted in a tardy and dilatory way , than to take a rash step , by which this nation might be plunged into difficulties ...
... sion , we deemed it a duty to take time for deliberation ; we thought it better to encounter the charge of having acted in a tardy and dilatory way , than to take a rash step , by which this nation might be plunged into difficulties ...
Side 48
... sion begins , they stop . They do not pass it , because they do not chuse to pass it . Offering no serious obsta- cle to their actual power , it rises , like a Chinese wall , against their sentiments and their feelings . Continuation of ...
... sion begins , they stop . They do not pass it , because they do not chuse to pass it . Offering no serious obsta- cle to their actual power , it rises , like a Chinese wall , against their sentiments and their feelings . Continuation of ...
Side 62
... sion of Canada , possible ; or , that , whatever hostile inten- tion we may have to Great Britain , we can deliberately go to wreak it on a race of inoffensive colonists , with whom the people of our nation are on terms of friendly ...
... sion of Canada , possible ; or , that , whatever hostile inten- tion we may have to Great Britain , we can deliberately go to wreak it on a race of inoffensive colonists , with whom the people of our nation are on terms of friendly ...
Side 91
... sion , is not only unfounded , in the fair interpretation of the constitution , by the words and evident meaning of the granting clause , but that it is inconsistent with other parts of the charter ; that it reverses the whole plan or ...
... sion , is not only unfounded , in the fair interpretation of the constitution , by the words and evident meaning of the granting clause , but that it is inconsistent with other parts of the charter ; that it reverses the whole plan or ...
Side 92
... sion , as by the assertion of principles which were dero- gatory to the rights of freemen . So thought the great men who formed and adopted this constitution . They were high - minded republicans indeed , and not merely 92 AMERICAN ...
... sion , as by the assertion of principles which were dero- gatory to the rights of freemen . So thought the great men who formed and adopted this constitution . They were high - minded republicans indeed , and not merely 92 AMERICAN ...
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Aaron Burr affection American arms army believe BENJAMIN RUSH bill blessings blood bosom Britain British Brutus calamity Canada cation cause character charity Christ Christian citizens command commerce constitution corrupted danger death defend Demosthenes distress dreadful duty earth enemy eternal exertions Extract eyes fame feel FISHER AMES force France friends gentlemen give glory Gospel hand happiness hath heart Heaven honour hope human interest invasion invasion of Canada Ireland Jacobins justice libel liberty look Lord mankind maritime rights means measures ment militia mind nation nature never object opinion party passions patriots peace political prayers present principles religion republican revolution ruin sans-culottes scene sentiments sion soul speak speaker spect Speech spirit suffering sword Syph Syphax tears tence thee thing thou tion truth virtue voice Washington whole William Cobbett words
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Side 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!
Side 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!
Side 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.
Side 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...