The Life of Charles Sumner: With Choice Specimens of His Eloquence, a Delineation of His Oratorical Character and His Great Speech on KansasDayton and Burdick, 1856 - 329 páginas |
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... stands con- spicuous , and other parts of the country are not unwilling to follow her example . Athens was called the eye of Greece , -Boston may be called the eye of America ; and the influence which she exerts is to be referred , not ...
... stands con- spicuous , and other parts of the country are not unwilling to follow her example . Athens was called the eye of Greece , -Boston may be called the eye of America ; and the influence which she exerts is to be referred , not ...
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... standing on the mountain - tops first dis- cern the coming beams of morning , let us , from the vantage - ground of liberal institutions , first recognize the ascending sun of a new era ! Lift high the gates , and let the King of Glory ...
... standing on the mountain - tops first dis- cern the coming beams of morning , let us , from the vantage - ground of liberal institutions , first recognize the ascending sun of a new era ! Lift high the gates , and let the King of Glory ...
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... stand on the threshold of a new age , which is preparing to recognize new influences . The ancient divinities of violence and wrong are retreating to their kindred darkness . The sun of our moral universe is entering a new ecliptic , no ...
... stand on the threshold of a new age , which is preparing to recognize new influences . The ancient divinities of violence and wrong are retreating to their kindred darkness . The sun of our moral universe is entering a new ecliptic , no ...
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... stands ; but he cannot be stayed here . The improvement of the Past is the earnest of still further improve- ment in the long ages of the Future . And who can doubt , that , in the lapse of time , as the Christian Law is gradually ...
... stands ; but he cannot be stayed here . The improvement of the Past is the earnest of still further improve- ment in the long ages of the Future . And who can doubt , that , in the lapse of time , as the Christian Law is gradually ...
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... standing up for the liberties of my country ; and whatever diffi- culties and discouragements lie in my way , I dare not shrink from it ; and I rely on that Being , who has not left to us the choice of duties , that whilst I shall ...
... standing up for the liberties of my country ; and whatever diffi- culties and discouragements lie in my way , I dare not shrink from it ; and I rely on that Being , who has not left to us the choice of duties , that whilst I shall ...
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