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 Seiten |
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... living time to bury and lament their dead , in the quiet- ness of private sorrow . Having performed this work of beneficence and mercy on your inland border , turn , and look with the eye of justice and compassion on your vast ...
... living time to bury and lament their dead , in the quiet- ness of private sorrow . Having performed this work of beneficence and mercy on your inland border , turn , and look with the eye of justice and compassion on your vast ...
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... living separately , in the constant reciprocation of friendly and tender offices - they even in- termarried with each other . As enemies ( if they were such ) there is nothing to fear from them . Seven millions of people have nothing to ...
... living separately , in the constant reciprocation of friendly and tender offices - they even in- termarried with each other . As enemies ( if they were such ) there is nothing to fear from them . Seven millions of people have nothing to ...
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... living testimony , to trace the low malice of the defendant to its true source . We shall trace it to personal hatred , ground- ed on political prejudice . You may remember , that some time past an eulogium was delivered by the ...
... living testimony , to trace the low malice of the defendant to its true source . We shall trace it to personal hatred , ground- ed on political prejudice . You may remember , that some time past an eulogium was delivered by the ...
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... living God . If the duellist is a mere creature of solitude , in whose life or death , happiness or misery , no human being is par- ticularly interested ; if no bosom will glow with his pros- perity , or bleed with his sufferings ; if ...
... living God . If the duellist is a mere creature of solitude , in whose life or death , happiness or misery , no human being is par- ticularly interested ; if no bosom will glow with his pros- perity , or bleed with his sufferings ; if ...
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... living here , and the means of living for ever . He has denied the faith , and is worse than an infidel . Where , in the fatal , guilty moment , when he resolves to cast away his life , were his tenderness to the partner of his bosom ...
... living here , and the means of living for ever . He has denied the faith , and is worse than an infidel . Where , in the fatal , guilty moment , when he resolves to cast away his life , were his tenderness to the partner of his bosom ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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!
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...