The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 8F. P. Kaiser, 1899 - 4107 pages The text of thousands of speeches from all historical periods through the 19th century arranged in alphabetical order. |
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Page 2856
... authority in the State , to which their own was subordinate and which commanded them to put to death the citizens , then , indeed , they might plead necessity and perhaps be deemed worthy of pardon ; but being themselves sovereign and ...
... authority in the State , to which their own was subordinate and which commanded them to put to death the citizens , then , indeed , they might plead necessity and perhaps be deemed worthy of pardon ; but being themselves sovereign and ...
Page 2860
... authority unwarranted by law , and con- trary to the principles of our Constitution , nor given ear to those false accusations which were brought before the Senate , but he would have asserted with the boldness and the freedom of an ...
... authority unwarranted by law , and con- trary to the principles of our Constitution , nor given ear to those false accusations which were brought before the Senate , but he would have asserted with the boldness and the freedom of an ...
Page 2878
... authority of Pope is vouched . Drink deep or taste not ; shallow draughts intoxicate ; drink largely and that will sober you . I must confess that the danger which alarms these gentlemen never seemed to me very serious ; and my reason ...
... authority of Pope is vouched . Drink deep or taste not ; shallow draughts intoxicate ; drink largely and that will sober you . I must confess that the danger which alarms these gentlemen never seemed to me very serious ; and my reason ...
Page 2884
... authority as this , what have you who take the other side to show ? Can you mention a single great philoso- pher , a single man distinguished by his zeal for liberty , human- ity , and truth , who from the beginning of the world down to ...
... authority as this , what have you who take the other side to show ? Can you mention a single great philoso- pher , a single man distinguished by his zeal for liberty , human- ity , and truth , who from the beginning of the world down to ...
Page 2896
... authority , we shall preserve the prerogative of the Crown as being a sacred trust , as being a por- tion of the liberties of the people . Centuries ago , as I have said , the time was when the Sovereign could come down with his strong ...
... authority , we shall preserve the prerogative of the Crown as being a sacred trust , as being a por- tion of the liberties of the people . Centuries ago , as I have said , the time was when the Sovereign could come down with his strong ...
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Page 3235 - 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.
Page 3139 - 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.
Page 3015 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 3013 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 3150 - But, at the distance of twenty-five years, I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions which agitated my mind as I first approached and entered the eternal city. After a sleepless night, I trod, with a lofty step, the ruins of the Forum ; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Csesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation.
Page 3033 - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Page 3016 - Why else was this nation chosen before any other, that out of her as out of Sion should be proclaimed and sounded forth the first tidings and trumpet of reformation to all Europe ? And had it not been the obstinate perverseness of our prelates against the divine and admirable spirit of...
Page 3019 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Page 3092 - Lord, dost thou not care that my sister did leave me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. But the Lord answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and troubled about many things : but one thing is needful : for Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Page 3013 - Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...