Orators of the American RevolutionBaker and Scribner, 1848 - 456 من الصفحات |
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... principles and struck at the foundation of all colonial wrongs . About the same time , Patrick Henry led off the south- ern wing of freedom's young army in a most bold and daring manner . The ruins of the old House of Bur- gesses will ...
... principles and struck at the foundation of all colonial wrongs . About the same time , Patrick Henry led off the south- ern wing of freedom's young army in a most bold and daring manner . The ruins of the old House of Bur- gesses will ...
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... principle of unjust taxation in the north . In the immediate neigh- borhood of Williamsburg , Cornwallis surrendered , and the long struggle of the Revolutionary war was closed . Thus the ball rested near where it received its first ...
... principle of unjust taxation in the north . In the immediate neigh- borhood of Williamsburg , Cornwallis surrendered , and the long struggle of the Revolutionary war was closed . Thus the ball rested near where it received its first ...
الصفحة 39
... principle of freedom . The old State - House , the head - quarters of colonial government in Boston , was the arena on which unrighteous taxation was combatted and the true ground won . The House of Burgesses , at Williamsburg , was the ...
... principle of freedom . The old State - House , the head - quarters of colonial government in Boston , was the arena on which unrighteous taxation was combatted and the true ground won . The House of Burgesses , at Williamsburg , was the ...
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... principles were first established . The " town - meetings " of New England were entirely a new feature introduced to the world in connection with political reform . A noted one was held in Faneuil Hall on the twelfth of September , 1768 ...
... principles were first established . The " town - meetings " of New England were entirely a new feature introduced to the world in connection with political reform . A noted one was held in Faneuil Hall on the twelfth of September , 1768 ...
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... principle of re- publicanism , that the majority must rule ; it was this that gave each member of an assembly a pride in ... principles , began to be held in the " Cradle of Liberty , " than the sagacious Burke recognized and proclaimed ...
... principle of re- publicanism , that the majority must rule ; it was this that gave each member of an assembly a pride in ... principles , began to be held in the " Cradle of Liberty , " than the sagacious Burke recognized and proclaimed ...
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الصفحة 137 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect. unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.
الصفحة 6 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
الصفحة 146 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore.
الصفحة 9 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
الصفحة 46 - We must be unanimous ; there must be no pulling different ways: we must all hang together." Franklin replied, " Yes, we must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
الصفحة 257 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
الصفحة 228 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
الصفحة 24 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
الصفحة 229 - What terms shall we find, which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done every thing that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on.
الصفحة 146 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.