Orators of the American RevolutionBaker and Scribner, 1848 - 456 páginas |
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... audience appeared to me to go away , as I did , ready to take arms against Writs of Assistance . Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposi- tion to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain . Then and there the child ...
... audience appeared to me to go away , as I did , ready to take arms against Writs of Assistance . Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposi- tion to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain . Then and there the child ...
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... audience is permitted ; only a few bystanders can gain admittance in an obscure gallery , and that under very inconvenient restrictions . Reports of debates are unauthorized , and of course imperfect . No visitor is allowed to have pen ...
... audience is permitted ; only a few bystanders can gain admittance in an obscure gallery , and that under very inconvenient restrictions . Reports of debates are unauthorized , and of course imperfect . No visitor is allowed to have pen ...
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... audience . They receive with rapture what their own ardor has half inspired . From the life and education of Mr. Otis , we should infer that his eloquence would be naturally and ex- tremely bold . The mind grows by what it feeds on ; it ...
... audience . They receive with rapture what their own ardor has half inspired . From the life and education of Mr. Otis , we should infer that his eloquence would be naturally and ex- tremely bold . The mind grows by what it feeds on ; it ...
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... audience than he resigned all to the noble impulses of his ardent nature , and sought a connection of ideas more than of words - or rather , he sought no relation , and thus wielded the true one ; for passion , when deep and honest ...
... audience than he resigned all to the noble impulses of his ardent nature , and sought a connection of ideas more than of words - or rather , he sought no relation , and thus wielded the true one ; for passion , when deep and honest ...
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... audience . That which is thus begun in pleasure and continued with a perpetually augmented force , is an agency of great power , and may be subordinated to the most useful ends . At every new touch of feeling , the popular heart swells ...
... audience . That which is thus begun in pleasure and continued with a perpetually augmented force , is an agency of great power , and may be subordinated to the most useful ends . At every new touch of feeling , the popular heart swells ...
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admiration Alexander Hamilton American argument arms audience battle beauty blood bold bosom Boston British career cause character Cicero Colonies command Congress debate Declaration Demosthenes distinguished divine early earth elegant eloquence Emmet emotion energy England exalted excellence excited fame Faneuil Hall fear feeling fire Fisher Ames foes force freedom genius glorious Governor graceful Hamilton Hancock heart heaven hero highest honor House of Burgesses human influence inspiration intellect James Otis John Adams John Randolph Josiah Quincy language learned liberty light living mankind manner master ment mental mighty mind nature never noble occasion orator oratorical passions Patrick Henry patriotic person Pinkney political popular possessed principles profound Quincy remarkable Revolution Richard Henry Lee sagacious Samuel Adams says scene sentiments soul speak speaker speech spirit splendid splendor storm struggle sublime talents thing thought tion tones voice Wirt words Writs of Assistance