The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American Authors, of the Most Admired Specimens of Congressional, Forensic, Pulpit and Popular Eloquence, with Dialogues and Poetical Extracts, Adapted to Public Recitation : and an Introduction, Embracing the Principle Rules Relating to Delivery and ActionPublished and sold by Daniel Fenton, Thomas T. Stiles, printer, 1815 - 324 sider |
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Side 14
... danger has disappeared , we can again assume our peaceful attitude , without endangering the liberties of the people . Against these considerations , weighty in themselves , your committee felt themselves constrained to decide , in ...
... danger has disappeared , we can again assume our peaceful attitude , without endangering the liberties of the people . Against these considerations , weighty in themselves , your committee felt themselves constrained to decide , in ...
Side 21
... dangerous experiment . We were to succeed in the French mode by the system of fraternization - all is French ! -but how dreadfully it may be retorted on the southern and wes- tern slaveholding states . I detest this subornation of ...
... dangerous experiment . We were to succeed in the French mode by the system of fraternization - all is French ! -but how dreadfully it may be retorted on the southern and wes- tern slaveholding states . I detest this subornation of ...
Side 26
... dangers present themselves from the black po- pulation , in the middle and southern states . I will , how- ever , touch ... danger was ever apprehended . But should we therefore be unobservant spectators of the progress of society within ...
... dangers present themselves from the black po- pulation , in the middle and southern states . I will , how- ever , touch ... danger was ever apprehended . But should we therefore be unobservant spectators of the progress of society within ...
Side 42
... dangerous to the being of the government . The expe- rience of every day confirms these sentiments . Men who act from such motives are not to be discouraged by tri- fling obstacles , nor awed by any dangers . They know the limit of ...
... dangerous to the being of the government . The expe- rience of every day confirms these sentiments . Men who act from such motives are not to be discouraged by tri- fling obstacles , nor awed by any dangers . They know the limit of ...
Side 57
... danger . The centinel upon the watch - tower has told them all's well . When the midnight robber has sallied forth from his covert and prowls about the streets for his prey ; when the incendiary has clapt his torch , and the city is ...
... danger . The centinel upon the watch - tower has told them all's well . When the midnight robber has sallied forth from his covert and prowls about the streets for his prey ; when the incendiary has clapt his torch , and the city is ...
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Side 303 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Side 316 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Side 76 - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Side 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Side 322 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Side 313 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gem'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Side 316 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Side 314 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...