Oration Delivered on the Fifth Anniversary of the South Carolina Historical Society: At Hibernian Hall, in Charleston, on Wednesday Evening, May 23, 1860Walker, Evans & Company, 1860 - 34 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 7 - And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
الصفحة 7 - Let darkness keep her raven gloss. Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss, To dance with Death, to beat the ground, Than that the victor Hours should scorn The long result of love, and boast, 'Behold the man that loved and lost, But all he was is overworn.
الصفحة 26 - This, sir, was the great end to which all parties looked, and it is by the fulfilment of this high trust, that " the common benefit of all the States " is to be best promoted. Sir, let me tell the gentleman, that in the part of the country in which I live, we do not measure political benefits by the...
الصفحة 18 - ... nothing from them but derision and ridiculous answers. We have sent boies amongst them to learne their language, but they return worse than they went ; but I am no Statesman, nor love I to meddle with any thing but my bookes, but I can find no probability by this course to draw them to goodnesse ; and I am persuaded if Mars and Minerva goe hand in hand they will effect more good in one houre than these verbal Mercurians in their lives, and till priests and ancients have their throats cut, there...
الصفحة 10 - If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed...
الصفحة 18 - ... the laws of England, as near as the same conveniently may be, at his and their will and pleasure, to any person then...
الصفحة 8 - ... the silver cord is loosed, and the golden bowl is broken, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it".
الصفحة 18 - ... and royalties, as well marine as other, within the said lands and seas thereunto adjoining ; and as the common safety and interests of the people would render good government necessary in their new settlements, she gave him, his heirs and assigns, full power to convict, punish, pardon, govern and rule, as well in causes capital or criminal as civil, both marine and other, according to such statutes, laws and ordinances, as shall be by him, his heirs and assigns, devised and established for their...
الصفحة 33 - ... of passion ; we must recall that noble form, now lifted to its majestic height and swayed by emotion, like some grand oak with its branches rocking in the gale, now bending with the pliancy of the willow, to the attitudes of eager persuasion and pathetic appeal, until it seemed as if
الصفحة 33 - And to estimate his power as an orator, we must not confine ourselves to his powers of argument; but we must recall, also, the nervous magnetism of his nature, and all the elements of his unrivalled action; we must recall the quivering muscles, the tremulous lips, the cloud and the sunshine of his brow as his face was swept by the