Classified Models of Speech Composition: Ninety-five Complete SpeechesJames Milton O'Neill Century Company, 1921 - 849 pages |
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... colonies . I was not less under the necessity of forming some fixed ideas concerning the general policy of the British empire . Something of this sort seemed to be indispensable , in order , amid so vast a fluctuation of passions and ...
... colonies . I was not less under the necessity of forming some fixed ideas concerning the general policy of the British empire . Something of this sort seemed to be indispensable , in order , amid so vast a fluctuation of passions and ...
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... colonies , I confess my caution gave way . I felt this is one of those few moments in which decorum yields to a higher duty . Public calamity is a mighty leveler , and there are occasions when any , even the slightest , chance of doing ...
... colonies , I confess my caution gave way . I felt this is one of those few moments in which decorum yields to a higher duty . Public calamity is a mighty leveler , and there are occasions when any , even the slightest , chance of doing ...
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... colonies in the mother country , to give permanent satisfaction to your people ; and , far from a scheme of ruling by dis- cord , to reconcile them to each other in the same act , and by the bond of the very same interest , which ...
... colonies in the mother country , to give permanent satisfaction to your people ; and , far from a scheme of ruling by dis- cord , to reconcile them to each other in the same act , and by the bond of the very same interest , which ...
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... colonies . I have taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calcula- tion justify myself in placing the number below two millions of inhabi- tants of our own European blood and color , besides at least five ...
... colonies . I have taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calcula- tion justify myself in placing the number below two millions of inhabi- tants of our own European blood and color , besides at least five ...
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... colonies alone , as it stood in 1772 , compared with the whole trade of England to all parts of the world , the colonies included , in the year 1704. They are from good vouchers ; the latter period from the accounts on your table ...
... colonies alone , as it stood in 1772 , compared with the whole trade of England to all parts of the world , the colonies included , in the year 1704. They are from good vouchers ; the latter period from the accounts on your table ...
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Page 811 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 400 - A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political Independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
Page 821 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 485 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those Divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 485 - The Almighty has his own purposes. ' Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
Page 154 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Page 153 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 477 - I now reiterate these sentiments ; and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the' case is susceptible, that the property, peace, and security of no section are to be in anywise endangered by the now incoming administration.
Page 483 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet...
Page 191 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.