Modern Eloquence: A Library of the World's Best Spoken Thought, Том 3Ashley Horace Thorndike Modern eloquence corporation, 1928 |
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Стр. xv
... talk intelligently as they ate , and yet so numerous that mere table talk would not keep a single subject of discussion before them for long nor allow any but a chieftain to monopolize attention . At length it might become desirable to ...
... talk intelligently as they ate , and yet so numerous that mere table talk would not keep a single subject of discussion before them for long nor allow any but a chieftain to monopolize attention . At length it might become desirable to ...
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... talk will answer as well , and trust to the inspiration of the hour and the table and the company , they may fail him . No minute suggestions can be made as to the details of prep- aration . Assemblies are convened for all sorts of ...
... talk will answer as well , and trust to the inspiration of the hour and the table and the company , they may fail him . No minute suggestions can be made as to the details of prep- aration . Assemblies are convened for all sorts of ...
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... talk to you to - night as an honorable man if I did not hold in deepest reverence that flag that represented the spirit that actuated our fathers . It stood for the principles of liberty , and , strange as it may seem , 30 THOMAS NELSON ...
... talk to you to - night as an honorable man if I did not hold in deepest reverence that flag that represented the spirit that actuated our fathers . It stood for the principles of liberty , and , strange as it may seem , 30 THOMAS NELSON ...
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... talk and theorize as much as we please , but this is the law of nature - the stronger pushes the weaker to the wall and takes its place . In the history of civilization first one nation rises and be- comes the torch - bearer , and then ...
... talk and theorize as much as we please , but this is the law of nature - the stronger pushes the weaker to the wall and takes its place . In the history of civilization first one nation rises and be- comes the torch - bearer , and then ...
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... courage and wisdom . I do not want anything I say here this evening to have in the least degree the complexion of a political talk . I am like a friend of mine down in Virginia who told me that he never 34 THOMAS NELSON PAGE.
... courage and wisdom . I do not want anything I say here this evening to have in the least degree the complexion of a political talk . I am like a friend of mine down in Virginia who told me that he never 34 THOMAS NELSON PAGE.
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Стр. 200 - Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Стр. 267 - Ireland, king, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken for the glory of GOD, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of GOD and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Стр. xviii - Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Стр. 322 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Стр. xxvii - HIGH on a throne of royal state, • — which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus, and of Ind ; Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold...
Стр. 267 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission...
Стр. 168 - To set the Cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honour while you strike him down The foe that comes with fearless eyes: To count the life of battle good, And dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood That binds the brave of all the earth...
Стр. 12 - And the torch that would light them thro' dignity's way, Must be caught from the pile, where their country expires Then blame not the bard, if in pleasure's soft dream, He should try to forget what he never can heal : Oh ! give but a hope — let a vista but gleam Through the gloom of his country, and mark how he'll feel!
Стр. 12 - But though glory be gone, and though hope fade away, Thy name, loved Erin ! shall live in his songs, Not even in the hour when his heart is most gay Will he lose the remembrance of thee and thy wrongs ! The stranger shall hear thy lament on his plains ; The sigh of thy harp shall be sent o'er the deep, Till thy masters themselves, as they rivet thy chains, Shall pause at the song of their captive and weep ! WHILE GAZING ON THE MOON'S LIGHT.
Стр. 205 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.