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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... strength , and no written constitution can have any worth , or can endure for any time , unless the unwritten infuses itself into it . " There is a mystery in the soul of State , Which hath an operation more divine Than breath or pen ...
... strength , and no written constitution can have any worth , or can endure for any time , unless the unwritten infuses itself into it . " There is a mystery in the soul of State , Which hath an operation more divine Than breath or pen ...
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... for smooth seas and summer gales , across a darker and a stormier sea has held her victorious course , and to- day , in the pride of unbroken strength , and in the majesty of perfect proportion , is proclaiming to the world ORATION . 21.
... for smooth seas and summer gales , across a darker and a stormier sea has held her victorious course , and to- day , in the pride of unbroken strength , and in the majesty of perfect proportion , is proclaiming to the world ORATION . 21.
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... strength ? If I had nothing in which to put my trust but an individual , or a party , I might in- deed be filled with apprehension . But ours is not the government of one man , nor the government of one party . I look beyond the mere ...
... strength ? If I had nothing in which to put my trust but an individual , or a party , I might in- deed be filled with apprehension . But ours is not the government of one man , nor the government of one party . I look beyond the mere ...
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... ever before the measure and strength of that stupendous expe- riment , experiment no longer , which we have undertaken in the western world . It is beginning to see , in spite of the - - boasts of a factitious and pedantic Cæsarism , 14.
... ever before the measure and strength of that stupendous expe- riment , experiment no longer , which we have undertaken in the western world . It is beginning to see , in spite of the - - boasts of a factitious and pedantic Cæsarism , 14.
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... strength and of the prosperity of your county ? Certainly it is the possession of civil and religious liberty , as the great cause of the downfall of Spain , so powerful three centuries ago , is the want of civil and religious liberty ...
... strength and of the prosperity of your county ? Certainly it is the possession of civil and religious liberty , as the great cause of the downfall of Spain , so powerful three centuries ago , is the want of civil and religious liberty ...
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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...