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 páginas |
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... constitutions , " choice spirits , tired of the dull pursuits of civil life " were seeking after agencies and commissions ; willing to doze in gross stupidity over the public fire ; to light the public candle at both ends . Honorable ...
... constitutions , " choice spirits , tired of the dull pursuits of civil life " were seeking after agencies and commissions ; willing to doze in gross stupidity over the public fire ; to light the public candle at both ends . Honorable ...
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... constitution ; to embark in a com- mon cause with France and be dragged at the wheels of the car of some Burr or Bonaparte . For a gentleman from Tennessee or Gennessee , or Lake Champlain , there may be some prospect of advantage ...
... constitution ; to embark in a com- mon cause with France and be dragged at the wheels of the car of some Burr or Bonaparte . For a gentleman from Tennessee or Gennessee , or Lake Champlain , there may be some prospect of advantage ...
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... constitutional and legal . It is also conscien- tious . It rests in settled and sober conviction , that such policy is destructive to the interests of the people , and dangerous to the being of the government . The expe- rience of every ...
... constitutional and legal . It is also conscien- tious . It rests in settled and sober conviction , that such policy is destructive to the interests of the people , and dangerous to the being of the government . The expe- rience of every ...
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... constitutional privilege , I shall defend and exercise with- in this house , and without this house , and in all places ; in time of war , in time of peace , and at all times . Liv- ing I shall assert , dying I shall assert it , and ...
... constitutional privilege , I shall defend and exercise with- in this house , and without this house , and in all places ; in time of war , in time of peace , and at all times . Liv- ing I shall assert , dying I shall assert it , and ...
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... constitutional right to establish such systems . They protest to you , that such is not , and never was , their understanding of your powers . They are sincere in this opinion , and it is of infinite moment , that you duly respect that ...
... constitutional right to establish such systems . They protest to you , that such is not , and never was , their understanding of your powers . They are sincere in this opinion , and it is of infinite moment , that you duly respect that ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
Página 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!
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...