The American Orator: With an Appendix Containing the Declaration of Independence, with the Fac-similes of the Autographs of the Signers; the Constitution of the United States; Washington's Farewell Address; and Fac-similes of the Autographs of a Large Number of Distinguished Individualscompiler, 1853 - 448 páginas |
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... continent not barren of historical monumental scenes . Where else , in the circuit of the revolving globe , does the sun look on such a clustered group of glories ? Over how broad a portion of the world have we extended the advantages ...
... continent not barren of historical monumental scenes . Where else , in the circuit of the revolving globe , does the sun look on such a clustered group of glories ? Over how broad a portion of the world have we extended the advantages ...
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... continent , receiving it consecrated by the toils and sufferings and outpouring of ancestral blood , which on the day we now commemorate began , how delightful is the duty which devolves on us , to guard the beacon - fire of liberty ...
... continent , receiving it consecrated by the toils and sufferings and outpouring of ancestral blood , which on the day we now commemorate began , how delightful is the duty which devolves on us , to guard the beacon - fire of liberty ...
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... continent , our own example has been followed ; and colonies have sprung up to be nations . Unaccustomed sounds of liberty and free government have reached us from beyond the track of the sun ; and at this moment the dominion of ...
... continent , our own example has been followed ; and colonies have sprung up to be nations . Unaccustomed sounds of liberty and free government have reached us from beyond the track of the sun ; and at this moment the dominion of ...
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... continent . These are all so many warning examples of the disastrous effects of a want of union among kindred states ; like discordant brothers , in danger of being led into fiercer warfare by those very circumstances of common language ...
... continent . These are all so many warning examples of the disastrous effects of a want of union among kindred states ; like discordant brothers , in danger of being led into fiercer warfare by those very circumstances of common language ...
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... continent together ; and , as intelligence shoots with the electric spark from ocean to ocean , let public spirit and love of country catch from heart to heart ! ATTENTION THE SOUL OF GENIUS . - O . Dewey . THE favorite idea of a genius ...
... continent together ; and , as intelligence shoots with the electric spark from ocean to ocean , let public spirit and love of country catch from heart to heart ! ATTENTION THE SOUL OF GENIUS . - O . Dewey . THE favorite idea of a genius ...
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Página 197 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Página 115 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Página 402 - Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the whole. The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal Laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter, great additional resources of Maratime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The...
Página 93 - Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, Independence now, and Independence forever.
Página 199 - There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Página 394 - No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president ; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Página 400 - In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved...
Página 198 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Página 403 - 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?
Página 400 - FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the Executive Government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed to decline being considered among the number...