The World's Great Classics: Orations of American oratorsTimothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne Colonial Press, 1899 Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor. |
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... Representatives : Among the vicissitudes incident to life , no event could have filled me with greater anxieties , than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order , and received on the fourteenth day of the present ...
... Representatives : Among the vicissitudes incident to life , no event could have filled me with greater anxieties , than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order , and received on the fourteenth day of the present ...
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... Representatives . It concerns myself , and will therefore be as brief as possible . When I was first honored with a call into the service of my country , then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties , the light in which I ...
... Representatives . It concerns myself , and will therefore be as brief as possible . When I was first honored with a call into the service of my country , then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties , the light in which I ...
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... representatives , but it is necessary that public opinion should co - operate . To facilitate to them the performance of their duty , it is essential that you should practically bear in mind , that towards the pay- ment of debts there ...
... representatives , but it is necessary that public opinion should co - operate . To facilitate to them the performance of their duty , it is essential that you should practically bear in mind , that towards the pay- ment of debts there ...
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... representatives in both Houses of Congress , the spirit of that measure has con- tinually governed me , uninfluenced by any attempts to deter or divert me from it . After deliberate examination , with the aid of the best lights I could ...
... representatives in both Houses of Congress , the spirit of that measure has con- tinually governed me , uninfluenced by any attempts to deter or divert me from it . After deliberate examination , with the aid of the best lights I could ...
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... representatives of this nation , then consisting of little more than half its present numbers , not only broke to pieces the chains which were forging , and the rod of iron that was lifted up , but frankly cut asunder the ties which had ...
... representatives of this nation , then consisting of little more than half its present numbers , not only broke to pieces the chains which were forging , and the rod of iron that was lifted up , but frankly cut asunder the ties which had ...
Términos y frases comunes
admitted adoption amendments American army authority Britain British cause Citizen Genet citizens claim colonies commerce common confederation Congress consider constitution Continental Congress convention courts danger declare duty effect elected enemies England English equal eral ernment Europe evils executive existence faith favor federacy federal feel force foreign France genius give hands happiness honorable gentleman hope House human important independence influence intercourse interest Jay's treaty John Adams jury justice land laws legislature liberty Lord Castlereagh measures ment mind nation nature navigation Navigation Act necessary never object obligation opinion oppressive orders in council Parliament party passions patriotism peace political possess present President principles reason render republican respect Revolution Samuel Adams seamen Senate spirit taxes tion trade treaty trial by jury trust Union United Virginia virtue vote wish WRITS OF ASSISTANCE
Pasajes populares
Página 34 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national 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 40 - Let it simply be asked. Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Página 59 - 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...
Página 43 - ... of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot.
Página 37 - But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Página 41 - ... revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties) ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate. Observe...
Página 32 - I rejoice, that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of duty, or propriety ; and am persuaded, whatever partiality may be retained for my services, that in the present circumstances of our country, you will not disapprove my determination to retire.
Página 70 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the people, nation, or community...
Página 59 - If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending ; if we mean not basely to abandon...
Página 85 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.