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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Strana 26
... thoughts disturbed the calm of their declining years ; and death was devoid of terrors for them , conscious of a life well spent , and possessing A peace above all earthly dignities , A still and quiet conscience . During an age when ...
... thoughts disturbed the calm of their declining years ; and death was devoid of terrors for them , conscious of a life well spent , and possessing A peace above all earthly dignities , A still and quiet conscience . During an age when ...
Strana 29
... thought , how skilful and irresistible in argument , how overflowing with the fer- vid illustrations of a mind ... Thoughts that breathe , and words that burn . Adams and Jefferson were both educated to the bar . The talents of the ...
... thought , how skilful and irresistible in argument , how overflowing with the fer- vid illustrations of a mind ... Thoughts that breathe , and words that burn . Adams and Jefferson were both educated to the bar . The talents of the ...
Strana 34
... thoughts and passions . ~ There , the soul soars on the wings of glory , to the etherial regions of fancy . There , luxury and opulence spread a thou- sand temptations before the eye of taste and invention , and tax the resources of ...
... thoughts and passions . ~ There , the soul soars on the wings of glory , to the etherial regions of fancy . There , luxury and opulence spread a thou- sand temptations before the eye of taste and invention , and tax the resources of ...
Strana 36
... thought with Quincy , that life had no charms for him who lived not free ; and was ready to exclaim that ' wheresoever , whensoever , or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit , we will die freemen . ' He felt with Warren , that ...
... thought with Quincy , that life had no charms for him who lived not free ; and was ready to exclaim that ' wheresoever , whensoever , or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit , we will die freemen . ' He felt with Warren , that ...
Strana 43
... thoughts unsuited to the solemn season . It would be sacri- lege to indulge in the idea . Let others pursue the failings of greatness to the tomb ; let others regard only the dim specks in the broad and resplendent disk of their fame ...
... thoughts unsuited to the solemn season . It would be sacri- lege to indulge in the idea . Let others pursue the failings of greatness to the tomb ; let others regard only the dim specks in the broad and resplendent disk of their fame ...
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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...