The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American Authors, of the Most Admired Specimens of Congressional, Forensic, Pulpit and Popular Eloquence, with Dialogues and Poetical Extracts, Adapted to Public Recitation : and an Introduction, Embracing the Principle Rules Relating to Delivery and ActionPublished and sold by Daniel Fenton, Thomas T. Stiles, printer, 1815 - 324 sider |
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Side 17
... citizens : men of commercial habits cannot easily change their course of life ; those who have lived in afflu- ence and ease cannot consent to beg for bread . No , sir , they will violate this law , they will smuggle ; and sir , in ...
... citizens : men of commercial habits cannot easily change their course of life ; those who have lived in afflu- ence and ease cannot consent to beg for bread . No , sir , they will violate this law , they will smuggle ; and sir , in ...
Side 21
... citizens . Although I must acknowledge that some of our flaming patriots were thus manufactured , I do not think the process will hold good with a whole community . It is a dangerous experiment . We were to succeed in the French mode by ...
... citizens . Although I must acknowledge that some of our flaming patriots were thus manufactured , I do not think the process will hold good with a whole community . It is a dangerous experiment . We were to succeed in the French mode by ...
Side 36
... citizen or soldier , who shall procure an able bodied man to be en- listed . Before I can determine for myself ... citizens shall require it ; and if I shall see reasonable ground to believe , that the force , when raised , will be ...
... citizen or soldier , who shall procure an able bodied man to be en- listed . Before I can determine for myself ... citizens shall require it ; and if I shall see reasonable ground to believe , that the force , when raised , will be ...
Side 48
... citizens will drive back his forces to the line . But at that line , at the point where defence ceases , and inva- sion begins , they stop . They do not pass it , because they do not chuse to pass it . Offering no serious obsta- cle to ...
... citizens will drive back his forces to the line . But at that line , at the point where defence ceases , and inva- sion begins , they stop . They do not pass it , because they do not chuse to pass it . Offering no serious obsta- cle to ...
Side 89
... in aid of a regular army , upon the con- templated emergency happening , and of returning to their homes as soon as the emergency has ceased . The power claimed subjects the citizen to be made a H 2 AMERICAN ORATOR . - STOCKTON . 89.
... in aid of a regular army , upon the con- templated emergency happening , and of returning to their homes as soon as the emergency has ceased . The power claimed subjects the citizen to be made a H 2 AMERICAN ORATOR . - STOCKTON . 89.
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Side 303 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Side 316 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Side 76 - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Side 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Side 322 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Side 313 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gem'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Side 316 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Side 314 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...