Masterpieces of American Eloquence: Christian Herald SelectionChristian Herald, 1900 - 504 páginas |
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... feelings the experience that will make us happy . " You can discern , " say they , " objects distant and remote , but cannot perceive those within your grasp . Let us have the distribution of present goods , and cut out and manage as ...
... feelings the experience that will make us happy . " You can discern , " say they , " objects distant and remote , but cannot perceive those within your grasp . Let us have the distribution of present goods , and cut out and manage as ...
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... feelings for future gen- erations , while they are insensible to the happiness of the present , are perpetually foreboding a train of dissensions under our popular system . Such men's reason- ing amounts to this : give up all that is ...
... feelings for future gen- erations , while they are insensible to the happiness of the present , are perpetually foreboding a train of dissensions under our popular system . Such men's reason- ing amounts to this : give up all that is ...
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... feelings such as these , we do not pant for treaties . Such passions seek nothing , and will be content with nothing , but the destruction of their object . If a treaty left King George his island , it would not answer ; not if he ...
... feelings such as these , we do not pant for treaties . Such passions seek nothing , and will be content with nothing , but the destruction of their object . If a treaty left King George his island , it would not answer ; not if he ...
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... feelings of the day . No ! his own beloved Monticello is not less moved by the storms that beat against its sides than is this illustrious man by the howlings of the whole British pack , set loose from the Essex kennel . When the ...
... feelings of the day . No ! his own beloved Monticello is not less moved by the storms that beat against its sides than is this illustrious man by the howlings of the whole British pack , set loose from the Essex kennel . When the ...
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... feelings of the whole American people , that when the bill was pending before this House , gentlemen in the opposition , although provoked to debate , would not , or could not , utter one syllable against it . It is true , they wrapped ...
... feelings of the whole American people , that when the bill was pending before this House , gentlemen in the opposition , although provoked to debate , would not , or could not , utter one syllable against it . It is true , they wrapped ...
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Página 401 - And when they saw Him, they were amazed: and His mother said unto Him, Son, why hast Thou thus dealt with us ? behold, Thy father and I have sought Thee sorrowing. And He said unto them, How is it that ye sought Me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business ? And they understood not the saying which He spake unto them.
Página 41 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority ; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened ; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Página 433 - The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
Página 20 - They tell us, Sir, that we are weak— unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be' stronger ? Will it be the next week, or the next year ? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house...
Página 58 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself ; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common Judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Página 237 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Página 18 - 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. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the house ? Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received?
Página 469 - You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
Página 185 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 433 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any...