Orators of the American RevolutionBaker and Scribner, 1848 - 456 páginas |
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... influence indifferent , but it is the most thrilling to minds of the most delicate tone . Reverence for the scenes of exalted deeds is a noble instinct planted in our hearts for noble ends . It is inarticulate adoration ad- dressed ...
... influence indifferent , but it is the most thrilling to minds of the most delicate tone . Reverence for the scenes of exalted deeds is a noble instinct planted in our hearts for noble ends . It is inarticulate adoration ad- dressed ...
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... influence of local as- sociation , for one of the most valuable productions in modern history . It was in the Church of St. Maria d ' Ara Cœli , on the Capitoline Hill at Rome , as Gibbon himself tells us : " On the fifteenth of October ...
... influence of local as- sociation , for one of the most valuable productions in modern history . It was in the Church of St. Maria d ' Ara Cœli , on the Capitoline Hill at Rome , as Gibbon himself tells us : " On the fifteenth of October ...
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... influence of local association is strongly felt in the bosom of every American who visits the crumbling ruins of Jamestown , " Glorious still in all her old decay ; " or the unwasted rock at Plymouth ; the solid shore on which the ...
... influence of local association is strongly felt in the bosom of every American who visits the crumbling ruins of Jamestown , " Glorious still in all her old decay ; " or the unwasted rock at Plymouth ; the solid shore on which the ...
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... influence of every man was estimated according to his personal worth . In the popular strife for universal free- dom , they struck upon the fundamental principle of re- publicanism , that the majority must rule ; it was this that gave ...
... influence of every man was estimated according to his personal worth . In the popular strife for universal free- dom , they struck upon the fundamental principle of re- publicanism , that the majority must rule ; it was this that gave ...
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... influence over the country . The town - meetings and provincial assemblies were the arenas wherein the people were trained and armed intellectually for the great battle of independence . It was then that orators , fitted expressly for ...
... influence over the country . The town - meetings and provincial assemblies were the arenas wherein the people were trained and armed intellectually for the great battle of independence . It was then that orators , fitted expressly for ...
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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 defended Demosthenes distinguished divine early earth elegant eloquence Emmet 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 Joseph Warren 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 sagacious Samuel Adams says scene sentiments soul speak speaker speech spirit splendid splendor storm struggle sublime talents thing thought tion tones voice Warren Wirt words Writs of Assistance
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Página 167 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect. unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Página 23 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 285 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Página 252 - 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 36 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
Página 174 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.
Página 30 - ... proud of being descended from men, who have set the world an example of founding civil institutions on the great and united principles of human freedom and human knowledge. To us, their children, the story of their labors and sufferings can never be without its interest.
Página 115 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of the own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 19 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Página 205 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.