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 9
... gentleman , who is supposed to have seen too much of the world , to retain the peculiarities of the district in which he was born . RULE V. In every Sentence , distinguish the more SIGNIFICANT WORDS by a natural , forcible , and varied ...
... gentleman , who is supposed to have seen too much of the world , to retain the peculiarities of the district in which he was born . RULE V. In every Sentence , distinguish the more SIGNIFICANT WORDS by a natural , forcible , and varied ...
Side 18
... gentleman from Virgi- nia ; I am willing to receive the Canadians as adopted brethren ; it will have beneficial political effects ; it will preserve the equilibrium of the government . When Louisiana shall be fully peopled , the ...
... gentleman from Virgi- nia ; I am willing to receive the Canadians as adopted brethren ; it will have beneficial political effects ; it will preserve the equilibrium of the government . When Louisiana shall be fully peopled , the ...
Side 19
... gentlemen calling themselves repub- licans , can advocate such a war . What was their doc- trine in 1798-9 , when the command of the army , that highest of all possible trusts in any government , be the form what it may - was reposed in ...
... gentlemen calling themselves repub- licans , can advocate such a war . What was their doc- trine in 1798-9 , when the command of the army , that highest of all possible trusts in any government , be the form what it may - was reposed in ...
Side 21
... gentlemen from the south . In the year 1805-6 , in a struggle for the carrying trade of bellige- rent colonial produce , this country has been most un- wisely brought into collision with the great powers of Europe . By a series of most ...
... gentlemen from the south . In the year 1805-6 , in a struggle for the carrying trade of bellige- rent colonial produce , this country has been most un- wisely brought into collision with the great powers of Europe . By a series of most ...
Side 22
... gentlemen avowed that they would not go to war for the carrying trade - that is , for any other but the di- rect export and import trade - that which carries our na- tive products abroad , and brings back the return cargo , and yet they ...
... gentlemen avowed that they would not go to war for the carrying trade - that is , for any other but the di- rect export and import trade - that which carries our na- tive products abroad , and brings back the return cargo , and yet they ...
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Aaron Burr affection American arms army believe BENJAMIN RUSH bill blessings blood bosom Britain British Brutus calamity Canada cation cause character charity Christ Christian citizens command commerce constitution corrupted danger death defend Demosthenes distress dreadful duty earth enemy eternal exertions Extract eyes fame feel FISHER AMES force France friends gentlemen give glory Gospel hand happiness hath heart Heaven honour hope human interest invasion invasion of Canada Ireland Jacobins justice libel liberty look Lord mankind maritime rights means measures ment militia mind nation nature never object opinion party passions patriots peace political prayers present principles religion republican revolution ruin sans-culottes scene sentiments sion soul speak speaker spect Speech spirit suffering sword Syph Syphax tears tence thee thing thou tion truth virtue voice Washington whole William Cobbett words
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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...