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 páginas |
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... blood was to stream afresh . Nor were we unmindful of the expenditure of public treasure . And what cost me more reflection than every thing else , was the new test to which we are to put this government . We are about to ascertain by ...
... blood was to stream afresh . Nor were we unmindful of the expenditure of public treasure . And what cost me more reflection than every thing else , was the new test to which we are to put this government . We are about to ascertain by ...
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... blood of our country has already been shed ; yes , in one individual has fallen , the honest man , the orator , and the soldier . That he loved his country none can doubt he died to preserve its honour and its fame-- I mean the late ...
... blood of our country has already been shed ; yes , in one individual has fallen , the honest man , the orator , and the soldier . That he loved his country none can doubt he died to preserve its honour and its fame-- I mean the late ...
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... blood , their taxes , that must flow to support it . But gentlemen avowed that they would not go to war for the carrying trade - that is , for any other but the di- rect export and import trade - that which carries our na- tive products ...
... blood , their taxes , that must flow to support it . But gentlemen avowed that they would not go to war for the carrying trade - that is , for any other but the di- rect export and import trade - that which carries our na- tive products ...
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... blood runs in our own veins ; in common with whom we can claim Shakespeare and Newton , and Chatham for our countrymen whose form of government is the freest on earth , our own only excepted ; from whom every valua- ble principle of our ...
... blood runs in our own veins ; in common with whom we can claim Shakespeare and Newton , and Chatham for our countrymen whose form of government is the freest on earth , our own only excepted ; from whom every valua- ble principle of our ...
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... blood your liberties have been ce- mented . These are they who hold in such keen remem- brance the outrages of the British armies , from which many of them were deserters . Ask these self styled pa- triots where they were during the ...
... blood your liberties have been ce- mented . These are they who hold in such keen remem- brance the outrages of the British armies , from which many of them were deserters . Ask these self styled pa- triots where they were during the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
Página 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!
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...