A Library of Universal Literature: In 4 Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations. Pt.3: Orations, Volumen6Collier, 1900 |
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... interest which dur- ing his eight years ' sojourn in that country seemed always on the increase . Streets in several ... interests of France required her to aid them , and finally , at a crisis in their fortunes , obtained a treaty of ...
... interest which dur- ing his eight years ' sojourn in that country seemed always on the increase . Streets in several ... interests of France required her to aid them , and finally , at a crisis in their fortunes , obtained a treaty of ...
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... interests , and their selfish views . From such an as- sembly can a perfect production be expected ? It therefore astonishes me , sir , to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our ...
... interests , and their selfish views . From such an as- sembly can a perfect production be expected ? It therefore astonishes me , sir , to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our ...
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... interest is there at five per cent , they , in fact , pay two per cent for being allowed to do the judiciary business of the nation , which is , at the same time , entirely exempt from the burden of paying them any salaries for their ...
... interest is there at five per cent , they , in fact , pay two per cent for being allowed to do the judiciary business of the nation , which is , at the same time , entirely exempt from the burden of paying them any salaries for their ...
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... interests - so , on another , that the foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality ; and the pre- eminence of a free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can ...
... interests - so , on another , that the foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality ; and the pre- eminence of a free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can ...
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... interest , no deficiency of grate- ful respect for your past kindness , but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both . The acceptance of , and continuance hitherto in , the office to which your suffrages ...
... interest , no deficiency of grate- ful respect for your past kindness , but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both . The acceptance of , and continuance hitherto in , the office to which your suffrages ...
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A Library of Universal Literature: In 4 Parts, Comprising Science ..., Volumen6 Vista completa - 1900 |
Library of Universal Literature: In Four Parts, Comprising Science ..., Volumen6 Vista completa - 1900 |
A Library of Universal Literature: In 4 Parts, Comprising Science ..., Volumen6 Vista completa - 1900 |
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Página 39 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations, cultivate peace and harmony with all; religion and morality enjoin this conduct, and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Página 415 - Liberty first and Union afterwards," but everywhere spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!
Página 85 - Gentlemen may cry peace, peace! But there is no peace! The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me — give me liberty, or give me death!
Página 39 - As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace; but remembering also, that timely disbursements to prepare for danger, frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it...
Página 33 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Página 232 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned...
Página 46 - Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat, in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking in the midst of my fellowcitizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government — the ever favorite object of my heart and the happy...
Página 23 - ... the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
Página 100 - ... which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of mal-administration; and...
Página 31 - While then every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts, greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and, what is of inestimable value! they must derive from union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves...