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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... defend it even at the expense of their fame , rather than surrender themselves to the wild projects of mad ambition . There was a fatality attending plenitude power . Soon or late , some mania seizes upon its pos- sessors they fall from ...
... defend it even at the expense of their fame , rather than surrender themselves to the wild projects of mad ambition . There was a fatality attending plenitude power . Soon or late , some mania seizes upon its pos- sessors they fall from ...
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... defend them ? The coast is to be left defenceless , whilst men of the interior are revelling in conquest and spoil . But grant for a moment , for mere argument's sake , that in Canada you touched the sinews of her strength , in- stead ...
... defend them ? The coast is to be left defenceless , whilst men of the interior are revelling in conquest and spoil . But grant for a moment , for mere argument's sake , that in Canada you touched the sinews of her strength , in- stead ...
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... defend them . I well remember flying with my moth- er and her new born child , from Arnold and Philips- and they had been driven by Tarleton and other British pandours from pillar to post , while her husband was fight- ing the battles ...
... defend them . I well remember flying with my moth- er and her new born child , from Arnold and Philips- and they had been driven by Tarleton and other British pandours from pillar to post , while her husband was fight- ing the battles ...
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... defending them , she has destroyed the commerce and trampled on the rights of every nation ; when she has attempted to annihilate every vestige of the public maritime code of which she profes- sed to be the champion ? Shall we bear the ...
... defending them , she has destroyed the commerce and trampled on the rights of every nation ; when she has attempted to annihilate every vestige of the public maritime code of which she profes- sed to be the champion ? Shall we bear the ...
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... defend their rights ; to assert the honour , the dignity and inde- pendence of the country . But my ideas of duty are such , that when my rights are invaded , I must advance to their defence , let what may be the consequence ; even if ...
... defend their rights ; to assert the honour , the dignity and inde- pendence of the country . But my ideas of duty are such , that when my rights are invaded , I must advance to their defence , let what may be the consequence ; even if ...
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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...