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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... peace with G. Britain ? Do you expect to gain any thing in a pecuniary view ? No , sir . Look at your treasury reports . You now receive only six millions of revenue annually ; and this amount must be diminished in the same proportion ...
... peace with G. Britain ? Do you expect to gain any thing in a pecuniary view ? No , sir . Look at your treasury reports . You now receive only six millions of revenue annually ; and this amount must be diminished in the same proportion ...
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... peace , then , we should lose our commerce , our character , and a nation's best attribute , our honour . A war would give us commerce and character ; and we should enjoy the proud consciousness of having dischar- ged our highest duty ...
... peace , then , we should lose our commerce , our character , and a nation's best attribute , our honour . A war would give us commerce and character ; and we should enjoy the proud consciousness of having dischar- ged our highest duty ...
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... peace . I can- not believe that to retain their seats was the extent of the amor patriæ of gentlemen in this house . Can they let their brave countrymen , a Daviess and his associates in arms , perish in manfully fighting their battles ...
... peace . I can- not believe that to retain their seats was the extent of the amor patriæ of gentlemen in this house . Can they let their brave countrymen , a Daviess and his associates in arms , perish in manfully fighting their battles ...
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... peace ; they will continue to adhere to them , even in an unsuccessful war to 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 ...
... peace ; they will continue to adhere to them , even in an unsuccessful war to 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 ...
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... Peace , in a country like this , is not to be compressed into the compass that would befit a small litigation . It is not to be made to turn upon a pin . Inca- pable in its nature of being decided upon by technical rules , it is unfit ...
... Peace , in a country like this , is not to be compressed into the compass that would befit a small litigation . It is not to be made to turn upon a pin . Inca- pable in its nature of being decided upon by technical rules , it is unfit ...
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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...