The American Orator's Own BookC.M. Saxton, Barker & Company, 1859 - 350 páginas |
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... minister Genet could at all put him out of his way , or bend him from his purpose . Entrusted with the care of the welfare of a great people , he did not allow the misconduct of another , with re- spect to himself , for one moment to ...
... minister Genet could at all put him out of his way , or bend him from his purpose . Entrusted with the care of the welfare of a great people , he did not allow the misconduct of another , with re- spect to himself , for one moment to ...
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... ministers imme- diately begged pardon , and promised that repeal to the obstinate Americans which they had refused ... ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants here ; and then went mumping with a sore leg in America , canting ...
... ministers imme- diately begged pardon , and promised that repeal to the obstinate Americans which they had refused ... ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants here ; and then went mumping with a sore leg in America , canting ...
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... minister . When his face was hid but for a moment , his whole system was on a wide sea , without chart or compass . The gentlemen , his political friends , who with the names of various departments of ministry , were admitted , to seem ...
... minister . When his face was hid but for a moment , his whole system was on a wide sea , without chart or compass . The gentlemen , his political friends , who with the names of various departments of ministry , were admitted , to seem ...
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... ministers . America , my lords , cannot be reconciled , she ought not to be reconciled to this country . till the troops of Britain are withdrawn from the continent ; they are a bar to all confidence ; they are a source of perpetual ...
... ministers . America , my lords , cannot be reconciled , she ought not to be reconciled to this country . till the troops of Britain are withdrawn from the continent ; they are a bar to all confidence ; they are a source of perpetual ...
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... principled union be resisted by the tricks of office or ministerial manoeuvres ? Heaping papers on your table , or counting your majorities on a division , will not avert or postpone the hour of danger . It must SPEECH OF LORD CHATHAM . 58.
... principled union be resisted by the tricks of office or ministerial manoeuvres ? Heaping papers on your table , or counting your majorities on a division , will not avert or postpone the hour of danger . It must SPEECH OF LORD CHATHAM . 58.
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Página 292 - Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and Morality enjoin this conduct ; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Página 291 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity. Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Página 312 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
Página 56 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 295 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice...
Página 311 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Página 288 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Página 297 - Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat, in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment o"f partaking in the midst of my fellowcitizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government — the ever favorite object of my heart and the happy...
Página 284 - ... to the permanency of your felicity as a People. These will be offered to you with the more freedom, as you can only see in them the disinterested warnings of a parting friend, who can possibly have no personal motive to bias his counsel. Nor can I forget, as an encouragement to it, your indulgent reception of my sentiments on a former and not dissimilar occasion. Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm...
Página 252 - Three millions of People, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.