 | George Stillman Hillard - 1843 - 260 páginas
...Something feigned ; an invented story. 8 As-sIsx'+xCK. Help, aid. LXV. — SPEECH OF PATRICK HENEY. 1. Mn. PRESIDENT: It is natural for man to indulge in the...against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that Siren* till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes Morison - 1867 - 206 páginas
...its efforts as the miseries which are capable of being relieved." Patrick Henry commenced by saying, "It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope.'' It may be laid down as a sacred maxim, that every man is wretched in proportion to his vices. I am... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 páginas
...Hillard. xxx. SPEECH OF PATRICK HENRY, IN THE CONVENTION OF DELEGATES OF VIRGINIA, MARCH, 1775. R. PRESIDENT, — It is natural for man to indulge in...against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the, part of wise men, engaged in the great and arduous... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1869 - 344 páginas
...of the treaty between Great Britain and the United States. •* MR. PRESIDENT, — It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt...to the song of that Syren, till she transforms us to beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty ? Are... | |
 | 1861 - 892 páginas
...and yet be, like Peter and David, real Christians." ARMINIANI8M. " It is natural to man to indulge in illusions of hope. "We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to that siren till she transforms us into Arainians. And Arminianism is the natural state of the apostate... | |
 | George Perkins - 1869 - 60 páginas
...XXXI. — (continued.) Passages to be turned into oratio obliqua. 17. Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our 1 Make ' the polished race ' the nominative, and say ' wondered at with a certain horror.' eyes against... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1870 - 636 páginas
...Ilillard. XXX. SPEECH OF PATRICK HENRY, IN THE CONVENTION OF DELEGATES OF VIRGINIA, MARCH, 1776. . "T%/FR. PRESIDENT,— It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hops. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 páginas
...convenient structure of the sentences which make them ut great service for a pupil in declaiming."] MR. PRESIDENT, it is natural for man to indulge in...against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is it the part of wise men, engaged in the great and arduous... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1871 - 342 páginas
...mourns the tifl^re in sequestered bower, And shrill lark carols from her aerial tower.. James Seattle. MR. PRESIDENT : It is natural for man to indulge in...against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous... | |
 | John Williams - 1870 - 274 páginas
...of the preposition, and of an infinitive of tohich the object of FOR is tiif Hubjfft. KXAMPLES. 1. It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope (a.) — Patrick Henry. 2. For a prince to be reduced by villainy to my distressful circumstances,... | |
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Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and... 
