The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from Ancient and Modern AuthorsBenjamin Dudley Emerson Richardson, Lord and Holbrook, 1830 - 321 páginas |
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... as it hath been explained and spoke to , before us these three weeks past , I see the English constitution remaining firm , the same two houses of parliament , the same taxes , the same customs THE ACADEMICAL SPEAKER . 27.
... as it hath been explained and spoke to , before us these three weeks past , I see the English constitution remaining firm , the same two houses of parliament , the same taxes , the same customs THE ACADEMICAL SPEAKER . 27.
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... Constitution shall stand as long as it is possible for it to stand , and that , believe me , is a very short time . Sir , it is vain to deny it . They may say what they please about the old Constitution - the defect is not there . It is ...
... Constitution shall stand as long as it is possible for it to stand , and that , believe me , is a very short time . Sir , it is vain to deny it . They may say what they please about the old Constitution - the defect is not there . It is ...
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... Constitution was too good for them ; they could not bear it . No , Sir - they could not bear a freehold suffrage and a property representation . I have always endeavoured to do the people justice— but I will not flatter them - I will ...
... Constitution was too good for them ; they could not bear it . No , Sir - they could not bear a freehold suffrage and a property representation . I have always endeavoured to do the people justice— but I will not flatter them - I will ...
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... constitution and laws , they will carry their opposition to the utmost limit ; and the members of this Committee can estimate the feelings of hostility by which it will be accompanied . The final result will be a separation of the state ...
... constitution and laws , they will carry their opposition to the utmost limit ; and the members of this Committee can estimate the feelings of hostility by which it will be accompanied . The final result will be a separation of the state ...
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... constitution , and is to be promoted , by preserving that constitution in unabated vigour , throughout every part . - A spot , a speck of decay , however small the limb on which it appears , and however remote it may seem from the ...
... constitution , and is to be promoted , by preserving that constitution in unabated vigour , throughout every part . - A spot , a speck of decay , however small the limb on which it appears , and however remote it may seem from the ...
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Página 71 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards, — but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," God grant it, — God grant it!
Página 73 - Strike -till the last armed foe expires ; Strike — for your altars and your fires ; Strike — for the green graves of your sires ; God — and your native land...
Página 173 - once again he cried, " If I may yet be gone ? " — And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on.
Página 209 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 251 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear;— They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Página 73 - That close the pestilence, are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke, — Come in consumption's ghastly form — The earthquake shock — the ocean storm — Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine — And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier ; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.
Página 63 - THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land ! The deer across their greensward bound Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Página 69 - Massachusetts — she needs none. There she is — behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history — the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill ; and there they will remain forever.
Página 136 - What the devil good can passion do? — Passion is of no service, you impudent, insolent, overbearing reprobate! — There, you sneer again! don't provoke me! — but you rely upon the mildness of my temper — you do, you dog! you play upon the meekness of my disposition! — Yet take care — the patience of a saint may be overcome at last!
Página 70 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole. country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad.