The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to Ư the Present Time, Volume 8F. P. Kaiser, 1899 - Speeches, addresses, etc The text of thousands of speeches from all historical periods through the 19th century arranged in alphabetical order,. |
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Page 2868
... death , or avengers of their murder . I will cease accusing . You have heard , you have seen , you have suffered ! It only remains for you to give sentence ! LORD LYTTON ( EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER , BARON 2868 LYSIAS.
... death , or avengers of their murder . I will cease accusing . You have heard , you have seen , you have suffered ! It only remains for you to give sentence ! LORD LYTTON ( EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER , BARON 2868 LYSIAS.
Page 2869
... LORD LYTTON ( EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER , BARON LYTTON ) ( 1803-1873 ) ELEBRATED as he is for his fiction , Lord Lytton in prose com- position is perhaps at his best in such addresses as that delivered at the University of ...
... LORD LYTTON ( EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER , BARON LYTTON ) ( 1803-1873 ) ELEBRATED as he is for his fiction , Lord Lytton in prose com- position is perhaps at his best in such addresses as that delivered at the University of ...
Page 2870
... from natural objects , knit together with the zone of the careless Graces . But Latin litera- ture is borrowed and adapted , and , like all imitations , we per- ceive at once that it is artificial . But in 2870 LORD LYTTON.
... from natural objects , knit together with the zone of the careless Graces . But Latin litera- ture is borrowed and adapted , and , like all imitations , we per- ceive at once that it is artificial . But in 2870 LORD LYTTON.
Page 2871
... result from the study of ancient letters , whether Greek or Roman , -both are the literature of grand races , of free men and brave hearts ; both men . abound in generous thoughts and high examples ; both , LORD LYTTON 2871.
... result from the study of ancient letters , whether Greek or Roman , -both are the literature of grand races , of free men and brave hearts ; both men . abound in generous thoughts and high examples ; both , LORD LYTTON 2871.
Page 2872
... individuals is applicable to a State : " Keep the limbs warm by exercise , and keep the head cool by temperance . " But new ideas do not invade only our Philos- political systems ; you will find them wherever you 2872 LORD LYTTON.
... individuals is applicable to a State : " Keep the limbs warm by exercise , and keep the head cool by temperance . " But new ideas do not invade only our Philos- political systems ; you will find them wherever you 2872 LORD LYTTON.
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Page 3223 - 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 2972 - ... and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, " This is the way, walk ye in it," when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Page 3125 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 3001 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 2999 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 3019 - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Page 3002 - Why else was this nation chosen before any other, that out of her as out of Sion should be proclaimed and sounded forth the first tidings and trumpet of reformation to all Europe ? And had it not been the obstinate perverseness of our prelates against the divine and admirable spirit of...
Page 3121 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 3078 - Lord, dost thou not care that my sister did leave me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. But the Lord answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and troubled about many things : but one thing is needful : for Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Page 2999 - Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...