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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Strona 8
... remained for him to achieve a conquest over an error which was sanctified by age , and fortified by the prejudices of mankind . He dared to proclaim the important truths- " That Almighty God had ereated the mind free ; that all attempts ...
... remained for him to achieve a conquest over an error which was sanctified by age , and fortified by the prejudices of mankind . He dared to proclaim the important truths- " That Almighty God had ereated the mind free ; that all attempts ...
Strona 11
... remained to be hunted out , exposed and guarded against . The most powerful of these was the concentration and perpetuation of wealth in the hands of particular families , and the creation thereby of an overweening aristocracy . The ...
... remained to be hunted out , exposed and guarded against . The most powerful of these was the concentration and perpetuation of wealth in the hands of particular families , and the creation thereby of an overweening aristocracy . The ...
Strona 13
... remained unknown to the world , and was regarded as an extensive wild , within whose bosom the fires of genius and of intellect had not as yet been kindled . Mr. Jefferson saw then the injury which she would sustain if they remained un ...
... remained unknown to the world , and was regarded as an extensive wild , within whose bosom the fires of genius and of intellect had not as yet been kindled . Mr. Jefferson saw then the injury which she would sustain if they remained un ...
Strona 22
... remained . The ripe fruit has dropped to the ground , as the faded branch- es , that bore it , were yellowing beneath the dews of autumn . The harvest , bending by the weight of its complete maturity , has fallen before the sickle . The ...
... remained . The ripe fruit has dropped to the ground , as the faded branch- es , that bore it , were yellowing beneath the dews of autumn . The harvest , bending by the weight of its complete maturity , has fallen before the sickle . The ...
Strona 41
... remained until the adoption of the constitution of the United States . At this important epoch , Adams and Jefferson both returned from their foreign stations , to give stability by their personal weight , and efficacy by their talents ...
... remained until the adoption of the constitution of the United States . At this important epoch , Adams and Jefferson both returned from their foreign stations , to give stability by their personal weight , and efficacy by their talents ...
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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...