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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... thought of by the enlightened band of patriots who framed the Declaration . " Our political system will never be secure till this no- tion of original State sovereignty has been exploded . No military triumphs can accomplish this . To ...
... thought of by the enlightened band of patriots who framed the Declaration . " Our political system will never be secure till this no- tion of original State sovereignty has been exploded . No military triumphs can accomplish this . To ...
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... thought they saw a sinking ship . Like that little craft which has safely ploughed its way across the ocean , and now floats beside the frowning batteries of England , proclaiming , wherever she bears the Star Spangled Banner , that a ...
... thought they saw a sinking ship . Like that little craft which has safely ploughed its way across the ocean , and now floats beside the frowning batteries of England , proclaiming , wherever she bears the Star Spangled Banner , that a ...
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... thoughts , and to fill the heart with the noblest emotions . This is Geneva - the little city of the Lake - from which ... thought . Thence emanated that grand principle of the Divine Sovereignty , which is now the creed of the churches ...
... thoughts , and to fill the heart with the noblest emotions . This is Geneva - the little city of the Lake - from which ... thought . Thence emanated that grand principle of the Divine Sovereignty , which is now the creed of the churches ...
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... to own all the property , to hold all the trusts , to direct even the education of all minds , to say , what thoughts they shall think , what truths they may believe ; and , most impious of all , they assume to dispense the means of 13.
... to own all the property , to hold all the trusts , to direct even the education of all minds , to say , what thoughts they shall think , what truths they may believe ; and , most impious of all , they assume to dispense the means of 13.
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... thoughts . Civil and religious liberty ! Ladies and gentlemen , there is need , great need of it . With the exception of two or three oases , the desert is everywhere . It is wanted in pa- ganism , it is wanted in Islamism , it is ...
... thoughts . Civil and religious liberty ! Ladies and gentlemen , there is need , great need of it . With the exception of two or three oases , the desert is everywhere . It is wanted in pa- ganism , it is wanted in Islamism , it is ...
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Página 11 - 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 19 - 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 28 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 22 - 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 12 - 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 14 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 28 - I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Página 11 - 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...