A Selection of Eulogies: Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of Those Illustrious Patriots and Statesmen, John Adams and Thomas JeffersonD. F. Robinson & Company, 1826 - 426 |
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... become venerable by age - to assail error in its strong places , and to expel it even from its fastnesses . He advanced to the charge with a bold and reckless intrepidity , but with a calculating coolness . The Declaration of which I ...
... become venerable by age - to assail error in its strong places , and to expel it even from its fastnesses . He advanced to the charge with a bold and reckless intrepidity , but with a calculating coolness . The Declaration of which I ...
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... become a blessing to mankind . He was indeed , a precious gift ; a most beloved reformer . Shall we not then , while weeping over his loss , offer thanks to the giver of every perfect gift , for having permitted him to live ? But , my ...
... become a blessing to mankind . He was indeed , a precious gift ; a most beloved reformer . Shall we not then , while weeping over his loss , offer thanks to the giver of every perfect gift , for having permitted him to live ? But , my ...
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... , and power in their country's service , lived to become patriarchs of the empire which then sprang into being ; -they , Boast of the aged , lesson of the young , whose deeds were so recently remembered , and their names.
... , and power in their country's service , lived to become patriarchs of the empire which then sprang into being ; -they , Boast of the aged , lesson of the young , whose deeds were so recently remembered , and their names.
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... become the dwellers in eternity . Yes , full of years and of honors , an illustrious pair of the august founders of the Republic have gone to their last long home . The spontaneous voice of their country singled out three from the ...
... become the dwellers in eternity . Yes , full of years and of honors , an illustrious pair of the august founders of the Republic have gone to their last long home . The spontaneous voice of their country singled out three from the ...
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... to dispute , is now become matter of history . It was reserved for Adams himself to do full justice to the pre - eminent merits of his copatriot , no longer viewed as his successful competitor for the palm of political 28 EULOGIES ON.
... to dispute , is now become matter of history . It was reserved for Adams himself to do full justice to the pre - eminent merits of his copatriot , no longer viewed as his successful competitor for the palm of political 28 EULOGIES ON.
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Strona 212 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments.
Strona 215 - Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust? I know we do not mean to submit. We never shall submit.
Strona 242 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Strona 101 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Strona 396 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Strona 424 - Here was buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of The Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.
Strona 262 - Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Strona 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Strona 230 - It cannot be denied, but by those who would dispute against the sun, that with America, and in America, a new era commences in human affairs. This era is distinguished by free representative governments, by entire religious liberty, by improved systems of national intercourse, by a newly awakened and an unconquerable spirit of free inquiry, and by a diffusion of knowledge through the community, such as has been before altogether unknown and unheard of.
Strona 242 - MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...