A Selection of Eulogies: Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of Those Illustrious Patriots and Statesmen, John Adams and Thomas JeffersonD. F. Robinson & Company, 1826 - Počet stran: 426 |
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... feeling ? Or are they the spontaneous offerings of gratitude and love ? What mighty man has fallen in Israel , and why has Virginia clothed herself in mourning ? The tolling of your dismal bell , and the loud , but solemn dis- charge of ...
... feeling ? Or are they the spontaneous offerings of gratitude and love ? What mighty man has fallen in Israel , and why has Virginia clothed herself in mourning ? The tolling of your dismal bell , and the loud , but solemn dis- charge of ...
Strana 11
... feelings of pride and haughtiness which wealth is so well calculated to engender , and the homage which mankind are unhappily so much disposed to render it , causes the perpetu- ation of large fortunes in the hands of families , the ...
... feelings of pride and haughtiness which wealth is so well calculated to engender , and the homage which mankind are unhappily so much disposed to render it , causes the perpetu- ation of large fortunes in the hands of families , the ...
Strana 14
... feelings . Party spirit is buried in his grave and I will not disinter it . The American people will as one man look with admiration on his character , and dwell with affectionate de- light over those bright incidents in his life to ...
... feelings . Party spirit is buried in his grave and I will not disinter it . The American people will as one man look with admiration on his character , and dwell with affectionate de- light over those bright incidents in his life to ...
Strana 39
... feelings , Adams and Jefferson pro- posed and advocated the Declaration of Independence . For if they had not been deeply wronged by the metropolis , and if it was not their duty , in such case , to defend their impre- scriptible rights ...
... feelings , Adams and Jefferson pro- posed and advocated the Declaration of Independence . For if they had not been deeply wronged by the metropolis , and if it was not their duty , in such case , to defend their impre- scriptible rights ...
Strana 43
... feelings had ever sprung up to sharpen the contests of that period , and the recollections which they entailed upon the next generation ! Would to heaven that men , who were equally devoted to their country , and whose dearest blood had ...
... feelings had ever sprung up to sharpen the contests of that period , and the recollections which they entailed upon the next generation ! Would to heaven that men , who were equally devoted to their country , and whose dearest blood had ...
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Strana 212 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments.
Strana 215 - Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust? I know we do not mean to submit. We never shall submit.
Strana 242 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Strana 101 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Strana 396 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Strana 424 - Here was buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of The Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.
Strana 262 - Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Strana 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Strana 230 - It cannot be denied, but by those who would dispute against the sun, that with America, and in America, a new era commences in human affairs. This era is distinguished by free representative governments, by entire religious liberty, by improved systems of national intercourse, by a newly awakened and an unconquerable spirit of free inquiry, and by a diffusion of knowledge through the community, such as has been before altogether unknown and unheard of.
Strana 242 - MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...