Library of Oratory: Embracing Select Speeches of Celebrated Orators of America, Ireland, and England, Bind 1E.C. & J. Biddle, 1845 |
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... be sought successfully in the following pages . There are names upon them that have never yet disgraced their revolutionary pred ecessors . PHILADELPHIA , 1836 . CONTENTS . Page . SPEECH of James Wilson , January PREFACE .
... be sought successfully in the following pages . There are names upon them that have never yet disgraced their revolutionary pred ecessors . PHILADELPHIA , 1836 . CONTENTS . Page . SPEECH of James Wilson , January PREFACE .
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... never an arbitrary govern- ment ; our ancestors were never inconsiderate enough to trust those rights , which God and nature had given them , unreservedly into the hands of their princes . However difficult it may be , in other states ...
... never an arbitrary govern- ment ; our ancestors were never inconsiderate enough to trust those rights , which God and nature had given them , unreservedly into the hands of their princes . However difficult it may be , in other states ...
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... never granted they surely can never deprive us . I beg leave , here , to mention and to obviate some plausible but ill - founded objections , that have been , and will be , held forth by our adversaries , against the principles of the ...
... never granted they surely can never deprive us . I beg leave , here , to mention and to obviate some plausible but ill - founded objections , that have been , and will be , held forth by our adversaries , against the principles of the ...
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... never had any real existence . I have dwelt the longer upon this part of the objections , urged against us by our adversaries , because this part is the foundation of all the others . We have now removed it ; and they must fall of ...
... never had any real existence . I have dwelt the longer upon this part of the objections , urged against us by our adversaries , because this part is the foundation of all the others . We have now removed it ; and they must fall of ...
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... never to abandon , until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtain- ed - we must fight ! I repeat it , sir , we must fight ! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us , They tell us , sir , that we are ...
... never to abandon , until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtain- ed - we must fight ! I repeat it , sir , we must fight ! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us , They tell us , sir , that we are ...
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Side 15 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of Liberty and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Side 292 - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Side 14 - Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation ? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Side 473 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it; but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way ; but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, .and in the occasion.
Side 15 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary; but when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house ! Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
Side 14 - We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the Ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded, and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Side 14 - Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation, — the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission ? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it ? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies ? No, sir, she has none.
Side 111 - Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Side 53 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Side 425 - We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event to every class and every age. We wish that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests.