The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 8F. P. Kaiser, 1901 - 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 2859
... less palpable than heinous . None surely could be capable of this audacity but men of the most abandoned character who had already shown many previous in- stances of villainy and baseness . This was not therefore the first time he had ...
... less palpable than heinous . None surely could be capable of this audacity but men of the most abandoned character who had already shown many previous in- stances of villainy and baseness . This was not therefore the first time he had ...
Page 2863
... less have made a merit of building the Pireum , as he now does of having demolished it with Theramenes . But these actions appear to me in a very different light . Themistocles , deceiving our enemies , erected our walls ; Thera- menes ...
... less have made a merit of building the Pireum , as he now does of having demolished it with Theramenes . But these actions appear to me in a very different light . Themistocles , deceiving our enemies , erected our walls ; Thera- menes ...
Page 2872
... less renowned for the qualities of action than for those of thought . And you whom I address will carry with you , in your several paths to fortune , your national attributes of reflective judgment and dauntless courage . I see an ...
... less renowned for the qualities of action than for those of thought . And you whom I address will carry with you , in your several paths to fortune , your national attributes of reflective judgment and dauntless courage . I see an ...
Page 2873
... less into metaphysical inquiry ; it questions less the rela- tionships between man and his Maker ; it assumes its practical character as the investigator of external nature , and seeks to adapt agencies before partially concealed to the ...
... less into metaphysical inquiry ; it questions less the rela- tionships between man and his Maker ; it assumes its practical character as the investigator of external nature , and seeks to adapt agencies before partially concealed to the ...
Page 2882
... less favorably situated than a man who now , knowing only the English lan- guage , has a bookcase filled with the best English works . Our great man of the Middle Ages could not form any conception of any tragedy approaching ' Macbeth ...
... less favorably situated than a man who now , knowing only the English lan- guage , has a bookcase filled with the best English works . Our great man of the Middle Ages could not form any conception of any tragedy approaching ' Macbeth ...
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Page 3237 - 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 2988 - ... and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, " This is the way, walk ye in it," when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Page 3141 - 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 3017 - 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 3015 - 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 3035 - 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 3018 - 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 3094 - 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 3015 - 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...
Page 3220 - With as deep a reverence for the True as ever inspired the bosom of man, I would, nevertheless, limit, in some measure, its modes of inculcation. I would limit to enforce them. I would not enfeeble them by dissipation. The demands of Truth are severe. She has no sympathy with the myrtles.