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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... give legal expression to a general fact . But the providential constitution must exist . It is the nation's organic life . It grows with the nation's growth and strengthens with its strength , and no written constitution can have any ...
... give legal expression to a general fact . But the providential constitution must exist . It is the nation's organic life . It grows with the nation's growth and strengthens with its strength , and no written constitution can have any ...
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... give great pleasure to every Ame- rican present , when he introduced , as its respondent , one whose name was known and esteemed in all our country ; whose published works lay side by side of the Holy Bible . and Bunyon's Dream ...
... give great pleasure to every Ame- rican present , when he introduced , as its respondent , one whose name was known and esteemed in all our country ; whose published works lay side by side of the Holy Bible . and Bunyon's Dream ...
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... give me to propose , is on civil and reli- gious liberty . I should wish , in order to do honour to it , to be able , in this , my native country , to speak my native tongue , the tongue of my fathers . But I must speak En- glish ...
... give me to propose , is on civil and reli- gious liberty . I should wish , in order to do honour to it , to be able , in this , my native country , to speak my native tongue , the tongue of my fathers . But I must speak En- glish ...
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... give their life to the cause they defend . At a distance of some few yards from the place where we are now assembled , on the edge of this majestic river which flows before our windows , at about this season of the year , 1519 ...
... give their life to the cause they defend . At a distance of some few yards from the place where we are now assembled , on the edge of this majestic river which flows before our windows , at about this season of the year , 1519 ...
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... give liberty , true liberty to man . We rejoice and we thank God for the abolition of slavery , for the reestablishment of peace in your country , for the resolu- tions of Christian men among you to consecrate their strength to the ...
... give liberty , true liberty to man . We rejoice and we thank God for the abolition of slavery , for the reestablishment of peace in your country , for the resolu- tions of Christian men among you to consecrate their strength to the ...
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Página 29 - 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 5 - 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 2 - 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 28 - 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 6 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Página 9 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 29 - 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...