The Nation and the Constitution: An Oration Delivered Before the City Authorities and Citizens of Providence, July 4, 1866Providence Press Company, 1866 - 23 páginas |
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... American republicanism , the representative system , was never recognized . Strange to say , the sole English statesman of any note who seems to have seized hold of the fact that there was anything distinctive or peculiar in our ...
... American republicanism , the representative system , was never recognized . Strange to say , the sole English statesman of any note who seems to have seized hold of the fact that there was anything distinctive or peculiar in our ...
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... America as an unruly but vigorous offspring . That our institutions are a mere offshoot of theirs , has been a favorite opinion , especially with that class of Englishmen who have given us their most hearty sympathy . America , they ...
... America as an unruly but vigorous offspring . That our institutions are a mere offshoot of theirs , has been a favorite opinion , especially with that class of Englishmen who have given us their most hearty sympathy . America , they ...
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... American and English institu- tions , there is a radical distinction between a system which consists in the perpetual balance of separate estates , and a system based on one undivided sov- ereignty . The study of our institutions has ...
... American and English institu- tions , there is a radical distinction between a system which consists in the perpetual balance of separate estates , and a system based on one undivided sov- ereignty . The study of our institutions has ...
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... AMERICAN INDEPENDANCE IN GENEVA ( SUISSE ) JULY 4th 1866 PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS CELEBRATION OF THE NINETIETH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDANCE IN Switzerland.
... AMERICAN INDEPENDANCE IN GENEVA ( SUISSE ) JULY 4th 1866 PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS CELEBRATION OF THE NINETIETH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDANCE IN Switzerland.
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... American minister at Berne , to M. Upton , American consul at Geneva , to general Du- four , to Dr Merle d'Aubigné , to the count de Gasparin , author of the Uprising of a Great People , to M. J. H. Serment , advocate , President of the ...
... American minister at Berne , to M. Upton , American consul at Geneva , to general Du- four , to Dr Merle d'Aubigné , to the count de Gasparin , author of the Uprising of a Great People , to M. J. H. Serment , advocate , President of the ...
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Página 29 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and, sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Página 5 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Página 2 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Página 28 - Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Página 6 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Página 9 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 29 - 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...