The orator, a treasury of English eloquence1864 |
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... spirit , vibrate those energies from soul to soul . Not- withstanding the diversity of minds in such a multitude , by the lightning of eloquence they are melted into one mass- -the whole assembly , actuated in one and the same way ...
... spirit , vibrate those energies from soul to soul . Not- withstanding the diversity of minds in such a multitude , by the lightning of eloquence they are melted into one mass- -the whole assembly , actuated in one and the same way ...
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... spirit . I have been supported with a zeal indeed and heartiness in my friends , which ( if their object had been at all proportioned to their endeavours ) could never be sufficiently commended . They supported me upon the most liberal ...
... spirit . I have been supported with a zeal indeed and heartiness in my friends , which ( if their object had been at all proportioned to their endeavours ) could never be sufficiently commended . They supported me upon the most liberal ...
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... spirit of the departed is in high communion with the spirit of the place ; -the temple worthy of the new name , which we now behold inscribed on its walls . Listen , Americans , to the lesson , which seems borne to us on the very air we ...
... spirit of the departed is in high communion with the spirit of the place ; -the temple worthy of the new name , which we now behold inscribed on its walls . Listen , Americans , to the lesson , which seems borne to us on the very air we ...
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... spirit of this place , and built to last , I have no more doubt , judging from the spectacle I see before me , and from what I know of its brief history , than I have of the reality of these walls that hem us in , and the pillars that ...
... spirit of this place , and built to last , I have no more doubt , judging from the spectacle I see before me , and from what I know of its brief history , than I have of the reality of these walls that hem us in , and the pillars that ...
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... spirits , and it was granted I should name another House . I named it of men that shall meet you wheresoever you go , and ... spirit as is too much predominant , everything being too high or too low , when virtue , honesty , piety , and ...
... spirits , and it was granted I should name another House . I named it of men that shall meet you wheresoever you go , and ... spirit as is too much predominant , everything being too high or too low , when virtue , honesty , piety , and ...
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Стр. 6 - But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments?
Стр. 73 - My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Стр. 24 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Стр. 6 - ... Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative, to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Стр. 20 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
Стр. 25 - ... an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHER. To save that client by all expedient means, — to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, — is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm — the suffering — the torment — the destruction — which he may bring upon any other.
Стр. 1 - ... we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end — to which indeed all history points — the realisation of the unity of mankind. Not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics of the different nations of the earth, but rather a unity the result and product of those very national varieties and antagonistic qualities.
Стр. 29 - Our inclinations are not in our power, nor should either of us be held answerable to the other because nature has not made us suitable to each other. Tranquil and comfortable society is, however, in our power ; let our intercourse, therefore, be restricted to that...
Стр. 84 - My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the purposed ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me than the...
Стр. 62 - FILIAL PIETY !" It is the primal bond of society — it is that instinctive principle, which, panting for its proper good, soothes, unbidden, each sense and sensibility of man ! — it now quivers on every lip ! — it now beams from every eye ! — it is an emanation of that gratitude...