The Patriotic Speaker: Consisting of Specimens of Modern Eloquence, Together with Poetical Extracts Adapted for Recitation, and Dramatic Pieces for ExhibitionsA.S Barnes & Burr, 1864 - 524 páginas |
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... stand the latest , and , if we fail , probably the last , experiment of self - government by the people . We have be- gun it under circumstances of the most auspicious nature . We are in the vigor of youth . Our growth has never been ...
... stand the latest , and , if we fail , probably the last , experiment of self - government by the people . We have be- gun it under circumstances of the most auspicious nature . We are in the vigor of youth . Our growth has never been ...
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... stand here as the representative of freemen who possess in- telligence to know their rights , and who have the spirit to maintain them . Whatever might be my own private senti- ments on this subject , standing here as the representative ...
... stand here as the representative of freemen who possess in- telligence to know their rights , and who have the spirit to maintain them . Whatever might be my own private senti- ments on this subject , standing here as the representative ...
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... Standing armies , and navies , to an extent stretching the revenues of each portion of the dis- severed members , would take place . An exterminating war would follow - not , sir , a war of two or three years duration , but a war of ...
... Standing armies , and navies , to an extent stretching the revenues of each portion of the dis- severed members , would take place . An exterminating war would follow - not , sir , a war of two or three years duration , but a war of ...
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... stand among you , legislators of the new capitol , that glorious hall of your people's collective majesty . The capitol of old yet stands , but the spirit has departed from it , and is come over to yours , purified by the * Cineas was ...
... stand among you , legislators of the new capitol , that glorious hall of your people's collective majesty . The capitol of old yet stands , but the spirit has departed from it , and is come over to yours , purified by the * Cineas was ...
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... standing armies maintained in its bosom to enforce submission to its laws . A people who have once learned to relinquish their rights under compulsion , will not be long in forgettting that they ever had any . In extending slavery into ...
... standing armies maintained in its bosom to enforce submission to its laws . A people who have once learned to relinquish their rights under compulsion , will not be long in forgettting that they ever had any . In extending slavery into ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 248 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Página 336 - UP from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.
Página 422 - Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.
Página 338 - She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Página 259 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Página 205 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.
Página 338 - But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!
Página 415 - Thou, too, sail on. O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Página 84 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national territories and to overrun us here in these free states? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively.
Página 255 - Thou too, hoar Mount! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene Into the depth of clouds, that veil thy breast Thou too again, stupendous Mountain! thou That as I raise my head, awhile bowed low In adoration, upward from thy base Slow travelling with dim eyes suffused with tears, Solemnly seemest, like a vapoury cloud, To rise before me - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of incense, from the Earth!