The World's Famous Orations, Volume 6William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1906 - Speeches, addresses, etc |
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... hope of reconciliation is left . Power and au- thority are sometimes bought by kindness but they can never be begged as alms by an im- poverished and defeated violence . A further objection to force is , that you im- pair the object by ...
... hope of reconciliation is left . Power and au- thority are sometimes bought by kindness but they can never be begged as alms by an im- poverished and defeated violence . A further objection to force is , that you im- pair the object by ...
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... hope , respects , and formerly adored her freedom . The Colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most pre- dominant ' ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands . They are ...
... hope , respects , and formerly adored her freedom . The Colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most pre- dominant ' ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands . They are ...
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... hope ; satisfaction in your subjects or discontent . The Americans will have no interest contrary to the grandeur and glory of England , when they are not oppressed by the weight of it ; and they will rather be inclined to respect the ...
... hope ; satisfaction in your subjects or discontent . The Americans will have no interest contrary to the grandeur and glory of England , when they are not oppressed by the weight of it ; and they will rather be inclined to respect the ...
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... hope will depart only with my last breath - I have no idea of a liberty unconnected with honesty and justice . Nor do I believe that any good constitutions of government or of freedom can find it necessary for their security to doom any ...
... hope will depart only with my last breath - I have no idea of a liberty unconnected with honesty and justice . Nor do I believe that any good constitutions of government or of freedom can find it necessary for their security to doom any ...
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... hope it has in her magnanimity . There is no policy left for Great Britain but to cherish the remains of her Empire , and do justice to a country who is determined to do justice to herself , certain that she gives nothing equal to what ...
... hope it has in her magnanimity . There is no policy left for Great Britain but to cherish the remains of her Empire , and do justice to a country who is determined to do justice to herself , certain that she gives nothing equal to what ...
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Page 37 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 23 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Page 52 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 16 - Sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Page 55 - Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith.
Page 39 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us ; a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who, therefore, far from being qualified to be the directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Page 22 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Page 54 - ... gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Page 146 - Let no man dare, when I am dead, to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence...
Page 24 - Far from it. Far from deciding on a sudden or partial view, I would patiently go round and round the subject, and survey it minutely in every possible aspect. Sir, if I were capable of engaging you to an equal attention, I would state that, as far as I am capable of discerning, there are but three ways of proceeding relative to this stubborn spirit which prevails in your colonies and disturbs your government. These are, to change that spirit, as inconvenient, by removing the causes ; ' to prosecute...