The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from Ancient and Modern AuthorsBenjamin Dudley Emerson |
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... present measure will indeed pluck it from the sheath : yet had proper meetings been held in the earlier stages of these riots ; had the grievances of these men and their mas ters ( for they also have had their grievances ) been fair- ly ...
... present measure will indeed pluck it from the sheath : yet had proper meetings been held in the earlier stages of these riots ; had the grievances of these men and their mas ters ( for they also have had their grievances ) been fair- ly ...
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... - failing nostrum of all state physicians , from the days of Draco to the present time . After feeling the pulse and shaking the head over the patient , pre- water and bleeding - the warm water of your mawkish policy , and the lancets.
... - failing nostrum of all state physicians , from the days of Draco to the present time . After feeling the pulse and shaking the head over the patient , pre- water and bleeding - the warm water of your mawkish policy , and the lancets.
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... present position , as if he were a god . One hates him , another fears him , a third envies him , O men of Athens ! even amongst those , who appear to be most inti- mately connected with him ; and all those feelings , which are common ...
... present position , as if he were a god . One hates him , another fears him , a third envies him , O men of Athens ! even amongst those , who appear to be most inti- mately connected with him ; and all those feelings , which are common ...
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... present situation ? For I think the most pressing necessity to free men is the disgrace attached to failure . Are you content , tell me , to walk about the market - place , and inquire of each other , what news ? Why , can any thing be ...
... present situation ? For I think the most pressing necessity to free men is the disgrace attached to failure . Are you content , tell me , to walk about the market - place , and inquire of each other , what news ? Why , can any thing be ...
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... present peers of Scotland , whose noble ancestors conquered provinces , overrun countries , reduced and subjected towns and fortified places , exacted tribute through the greatest part of England , now walking in the court of requests ...
... present peers of Scotland , whose noble ancestors conquered provinces , overrun countries , reduced and subjected towns and fortified places , exacted tribute through the greatest part of England , now walking in the court of requests ...
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Page 71 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards, — but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," God grant it, — God grant it!
Page 73 - Strike -till the last armed foe expires ; Strike — for your altars and your fires ; Strike — for the green graves of your sires ; God — and your native land...
Page 173 - once again he cried, " If I may yet be gone ? " — And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on.
Page 209 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 251 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear;— They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Page 73 - That close the pestilence, are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke, — Come in consumption's ghastly form — The earthquake shock — the ocean storm — Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine — And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier ; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.
Page 63 - THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land ! The deer across their greensward bound Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Page 69 - Massachusetts — she needs none. There she is — behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history — the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill ; and there they will remain forever.
Page 136 - What the devil good can passion do? — Passion is of no service, you impudent, insolent, overbearing reprobate! — There, you sneer again! don't provoke me! — but you rely upon the mildness of my temper — you do, you dog! you play upon the meekness of my disposition! — Yet take care — the patience of a saint may be overcome at last!
Page 70 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole. country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad.