The World's Great Classics: Orations of British 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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... liberty ( a term of which we now know the meaning , from the fate of every nation into which the arms of France have pen- etrated ) then Belgium and Holland might , if they pleased , settle the question of the Scheldt by separate ...
... liberty ( a term of which we now know the meaning , from the fate of every nation into which the arms of France have pen- etrated ) then Belgium and Holland might , if they pleased , settle the question of the Scheldt by separate ...
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... liberty and equality , or to preserve , re- call , or treat with their prince or privileged orders , were not entitled to the distinction which France , in other cases , had justly established between government and people ; and that ...
... liberty and equality , or to preserve , re- call , or treat with their prince or privileged orders , were not entitled to the distinction which France , in other cases , had justly established between government and people ; and that ...
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... liberty , with the free consent of the states of his kingdom , and it did not contain one word relative to the dismemberment of France . I In the subsequent discussions , which took place in 1792 , and which embraced at the same time ...
... liberty , with the free consent of the states of his kingdom , and it did not contain one word relative to the dismemberment of France . I In the subsequent discussions , which took place in 1792 , and which embraced at the same time ...
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... liberty with the hope of alike recommending themselves to those who live under the feudal code of the German Empire ; to the various states of Italy , under all their different institutions ; to the old repub- licans of Holland , and to ...
... liberty with the hope of alike recommending themselves to those who live under the feudal code of the German Empire ; to the various states of Italy , under all their different institutions ; to the old repub- licans of Holland , and to ...
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... liberty , are to be numbered by the years of the Revolution , and by each of the new constitutions , which , under the same pretence , has in its turn been imposed by force on France , all of which alike were founded upon principles ...
... liberty , are to be numbered by the years of the Revolution , and by each of the new constitutions , which , under the same pretence , has in its turn been imposed by force on France , all of which alike were founded upon principles ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 501 - For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not ; but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Página 226 - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee : because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength...
Página 307 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 56 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 471 - THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast? That sacred hour can I forget, Can I forget the hallowed grove...
Página 105 - What have I to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me according to law?
Página 71 - February, 1810, being founded on circumstances of a temporary nature, which have happily ceased to exist, the said Treaty is hereby declared to be void in all its parts, and of no effect ; without prejudice, however, to the ancient Treaties of Alliance, Friendship and Guarantee, which have so long and so happily subsisted between the two Crowns, and which are hereby renewed by the High Contracting Parties, and acknowledged to be of full force and effect.
Página 111 - Be yet patient! I have but a few words more to say. I am going to my cold and silent grave: my lamp of life is nearly extinguished: my race is run: the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom!
Página 108 - No; I am no emissary; and my ambition was to hold a place among the deliverers of my country, not in power nor in profit, but in the glory of the achievement.
Página 445 - THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.