The Quarterly review, المجلد 67Murray, 1841 |
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... honour us with a visit , we propose , in the present article , to bring our readers acquainted with the leading orators in the United States , by short sketches of their career and characteristic passages from their speeches , -to play ...
... honour us with a visit , we propose , in the present article , to bring our readers acquainted with the leading orators in the United States , by short sketches of their career and characteristic passages from their speeches , -to play ...
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... honour that one of the first measures proposed by him after the independence of the colonies was secured , was protection to the British refugees . " Let " Let us have the magnanimity , sir , to American Orators and Statesmen . 9.
... honour that one of the first measures proposed by him after the independence of the colonies was secured , was protection to the British refugees . " Let " Let us have the magnanimity , sir , to American Orators and Statesmen . 9.
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... honour it . They will celebrate it , with thanks- giving , with festivity , with bonfires , and illuminations . On its annual return they will shed tears , copious , gushing tears , not of subjection and slavery , not of agony and ...
... honour it . They will celebrate it , with thanks- giving , with festivity , with bonfires , and illuminations . On its annual return they will shed tears , copious , gushing tears , not of subjection and slavery , not of agony and ...
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... honour , reasoning is sometimes useless , and worse . I feel the decision in my pulse - if it throws no light upon the brain , it kindles a fire at the heart . ' Under the treaty in question certain posts , supposed to be essential to ...
... honour , reasoning is sometimes useless , and worse . I feel the decision in my pulse - if it throws no light upon the brain , it kindles a fire at the heart . ' Under the treaty in question certain posts , supposed to be essential to ...
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... honour in an- other world , but it will never secure safety and independence in this . . . . . But I shall be told , " this may lead to war . " I ask , “ are we now at peace ? " Certainly not , unless retiring from insult be peace ...
... honour in an- other world , but it will never secure safety and independence in this . . . . . But I shall be told , " this may lead to war . " I ask , “ are we now at peace ? " Certainly not , unless retiring from insult be peace ...
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الصفحة 8 - 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...
الصفحة 27 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
الصفحة 42 - ... him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death...
الصفحة 8 - Treason!" cried the speaker —"Treason, treason," echoed from every part of the house.
الصفحة 9 - There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable, and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace ! but there is no peace.
الصفحة 20 - If you speak of eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is by far the greatest orator ; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor.
الصفحة 522 - ... from the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
الصفحة 46 - Massachusetts, instead of South Carolina? Sir, does he suppose it in his power to exhibit a Carolina name so bright as to produce envy in my bosom?
الصفحة 16 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
الصفحة 17 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly, through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good. We may die ; die colonists ; die slaves; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold.