... Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration and Washington's Farewell Address: Edited with Notes and an IntroductionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1905 - 107 Seiten |
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... solemn richness of organ - tones . " In his open- air addresses he could make himself heard to a greater dis- tance than any other speaker of whom we have trustworthy information . Upon almost all topics of public interest Webster had ...
... solemn richness of organ - tones . " In his open- air addresses he could make himself heard to a greater dis- tance than any other speaker of whom we have trustworthy information . Upon almost all topics of public interest Webster had ...
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... solemn period marks time without ad- vancing . An example occurs in the first Bunker Hill ad- dress : " Mind is the great lever of all things ; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered ; and the diffusion ...
... solemn period marks time without ad- vancing . An example occurs in the first Bunker Hill ad- dress : " Mind is the great lever of all things ; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered ; and the diffusion ...
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... solemn stateliness that we should now regard as somewhat artificial . But these formal characteristics cannot disguise the essential qualities of the style - its nobility , its sincerity , its straightforward- 1 W. C. Ford's Writings of ...
... solemn stateliness that we should now regard as somewhat artificial . But these formal characteristics cannot disguise the essential qualities of the style - its nobility , its sincerity , its straightforward- 1 W. C. Ford's Writings of ...
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... solemn , determined , 66 totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem , et magno se corpore miscet . " 1 sooner War on their own soil and at their own doors , was , indeed , a strange work to the yeomanry of New England ; but their ...
... solemn , determined , 66 totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem , et magno se corpore miscet . " 1 sooner War on their own soil and at their own doors , was , indeed , a strange work to the yeomanry of New England ; but their ...
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... solemn commemoration . 25. Fortunate , fortunate man ! with what measure of de- votion will you not thank God for the circumstances of your extraordinary life ! You are connected with both hemi- spheres and with two generations . Heaven ...
... solemn commemoration . 25. Fortunate , fortunate man ! with what measure of de- votion will you not thank God for the circumstances of your extraordinary life ! You are connected with both hemi- spheres and with two generations . Heaven ...
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AMERICAN HISTORY American Revolution battle of Bunker behold blessing born Boston Brander Matthews Brearley School Bunker Hill address Bunker Hill Monument Bunker Hill Oration cause century civil colonies colonists Columbia University commerce common Congress Constitution Continental Congress Daniel Webster Dartmouth College duty Edited effect elected England established Europe eyes Farewell Address father feeling foreign fortune French George happiness Heaven Higginson's Larger History honor hope Hotchkiss School House of Burgesses human idea influence interest Joseph Warren knowledge laws liberty lish look mankind ment military mind Monroe Doctrine moral nation object occasion opinion paragraph party patriotism peace political Prescott present president principles Professor of English Professor of Rhetoric prosperity pupil Reading regard respect Revolution School Second Bunker Hill sentence sentiment solemn South America Spain speech spirit tion union United Virginia virtue Warren whole
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Seite 85 - The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency.
Seite 83 - With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.
Seite 83 - Will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the union by which they were procured? Will they not henceforth be deaf to those advisers, if such there are, who would sever them from their brethren, and connect them with aliens?
Seite 94 - Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Seite 89 - One method of* preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible ; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it ; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which...
Seite 8 - VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered ! The same heavens are indeed over your heads ; the same ocean rolls at your feet : but all else how changed ! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes...
Seite 95 - The considerations, which respect the right to hold this conduct, it is not necessary on this occasion to detail. I will only observe, that, according to my understanding of the matter, that right, so far from being denied by any of the Belligerent Powers, has been virtually admitted by all.
Seite 84 - To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute ; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions, which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate Union, and for the efficacious management...
Seite 96 - Though in reviewing the incidents of my Administration, I am unconscious of intentional error — I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I [may] have committed many errors. — [Whatever they may be I] * fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate [the evils to which they may tend...
Seite 89 - Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. — The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of Free Government. — Who that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ? — [Promote then as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.