The Nation and the Constitution: An Oration Delivered Before the City Authorities and Citizens of Providence, July 4, 1866Providence Press Company, 1866 - 23 páginas |
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... England incurred the deep damnation of that step to which at one time she approached so near , had she recognized as one of the family of nations the confederacy whose corner stone was an arrogant denial of what England for years had ...
... England incurred the deep damnation of that step to which at one time she approached so near , had she recognized as one of the family of nations the confederacy whose corner stone was an arrogant denial of what England for years had ...
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... England as the exclusive source of our political existence . Nor has the error been confined to our side of the Atlantic . England has loved to speak of America as an unruly but vigorous offspring . That our institutions are a mere ...
... England as the exclusive source of our political existence . Nor has the error been confined to our side of the Atlantic . England has loved to speak of America as an unruly but vigorous offspring . That our institutions are a mere ...
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... England still ; but the fact cannot be over- looked that into the earliest shaping of our institutions there entered elements not of English growth , elements that were not subordinate and evanescent , but control- ing and permanent ...
... England still ; but the fact cannot be over- looked that into the earliest shaping of our institutions there entered elements not of English growth , elements that were not subordinate and evanescent , but control- ing and permanent ...
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... England institutions , which more than anything else gave an impulse to the revolution , was the system of town government . But the New England towns were the children of the New England churches , the distinctive characteristics of ...
... England institutions , which more than anything else gave an impulse to the revolution , was the system of town government . But the New England towns were the children of the New England churches , the distinctive characteristics of ...
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... England , proclaiming , wherever she bears the Star Spangled Banner , that a new age of naval warfare has come , the Republic decried and denounced , with prophets of evil predicting that she was fit only for smooth seas and summer ...
... England , proclaiming , wherever she bears the Star Spangled Banner , that a new age of naval warfare has come , the Republic decried and denounced , with prophets of evil predicting that she was fit only for smooth seas and summer ...
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Página 11 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and, sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Página 19 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Página 28 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 22 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Página 12 - Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Página 14 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 28 - I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Página 11 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...