Selections, from Several Literary Works: Comprising The Declaration of Independence, Speeches of Phillips, Tallmadge, Emmet, Curran, &c. Poetry by Moore; Picture of England; View of America; Character of Bonaparte; Biography, &c.&c. ...Thomas O'Connor |
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... meet the fate that awaits me , without a murmur ; but the sentence of the law which delivers my body to the executioner , will , through the ministry of that law , labour in its own vindication , to consign my character to obloquy - for ...
... meet the fate that awaits me , without a murmur ; but the sentence of the law which delivers my body to the executioner , will , through the ministry of that law , labour in its own vindication , to consign my character to obloquy - for ...
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... meet them on the beach , with a sword in one hand , and a torch in the other , I would meet them with all the destructive fury of war ; and I would animate my countrymen to immolate them in their boats , before they had contaminated the ...
... meet them on the beach , with a sword in one hand , and a torch in the other , I would meet them with all the destructive fury of war ; and I would animate my countrymen to immolate them in their boats , before they had contaminated the ...
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... meet the occasion , is deeply and indignantly felt by our opponents ; for it would be moustrous to suppose , that all is worthy ( and by that word , I conclude all that is earnest and disinterested among them ) do not as anxiously ...
... meet the occasion , is deeply and indignantly felt by our opponents ; for it would be moustrous to suppose , that all is worthy ( and by that word , I conclude all that is earnest and disinterested among them ) do not as anxiously ...
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... meet with the approbation and concur- rence of all who have sincerely at heart the interest of that great cause which is unfortunately still at issue , every friend to civil and religious liberty must rejoice . I am not silly enough to ...
... meet with the approbation and concur- rence of all who have sincerely at heart the interest of that great cause which is unfortunately still at issue , every friend to civil and religious liberty must rejoice . I am not silly enough to ...
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... meet with an abundance of that cold quality in the laudable ambitious youth , who ripened most sorely to repine to find his talents crampt and his energies trodden down by obstacles , which God and nature gave him those energies to ...
... meet with an abundance of that cold quality in the laudable ambitious youth , who ripened most sorely to repine to find his talents crampt and his energies trodden down by obstacles , which God and nature gave him those energies to ...
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Page 145 - THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.
Page 147 - Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 6 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 146 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his softened looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend : Here woman reigns ; the mother, daughter, wife, Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way of life ; In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures...
Page 86 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Page 148 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 79 - But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures; she sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection, and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.
Page 144 - I put it to your oaths ; Do you think, that a blessing of that kind, that a victory obtained by justice over bigotry and oppression, should have a stigma cast upon it by an ignominious sentence upon men bold and honest enough to propose that measure ? To propose the redeeming of religion from the abuses of the church, the reclaiming of three millions of men from bondage and giving liberty to all who had a right to demand it ; giving, I say, in the so much censured words of this paper, giving
Page 156 - Though all the world betrays thee, One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, One faithful harp shall praise thee !" The minstrel fell ! but the foeman's chain Could not bring his proud soul under ! The harp he...
Page 80 - The noble indignation with which he repelled the charge of treason against his country — the eloquent vindication of his name — and his pathetic appeal to posterity, in the hopeless hour of condemnation^— all these entered deeply into every generous bosom, and even his enemies lamented the stern policy that dictated hit execution.