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 2845
... Character MORE , SIR THOMAS 1478-1535 3062 His Speech when on Trial for Life MORLEY , JOHN 1838- 3068 The Golden Art of Truth - Telling MORRIS , GOUVERNEUR 1752-1816 3075 Oration at the Funeral of Alexander Hamilton MORTON , OLIVER P ...
... Character MORE , SIR THOMAS 1478-1535 3062 His Speech when on Trial for Life MORLEY , JOHN 1838- 3068 The Golden Art of Truth - Telling MORRIS , GOUVERNEUR 1752-1816 3075 Oration at the Funeral of Alexander Hamilton MORTON , OLIVER P ...
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... character who had already shown many previous in- stances of villainy and baseness . This was not therefore the first time he had trampled on our laws and opposed the spirit of our government . When the tyranny of the Four Hundred was ...
... character who had already shown many previous in- stances of villainy and baseness . This was not therefore the first time he had trampled on our laws and opposed the spirit of our government . When the tyranny of the Four Hundred was ...
Page 2866
... character of the defendant , they will en- deavor , by rhetoric and chicane , to varnish the most flagrant breaches of every law , human and divine ? Yet these artful speakers never displayed their eloquence in defending the cause of ...
... character of the defendant , they will en- deavor , by rhetoric and chicane , to varnish the most flagrant breaches of every law , human and divine ? Yet these artful speakers never displayed their eloquence in defending the cause of ...
Page 2869
... character and in feeling to the standard which Conservatism works in aris- tocracy . " He died at Torquay , January 18th , 1873 . DEMOSTHENES AND THE NOBILITY OF THE CLASSICS ( From the Address Delivered to the Associated Societies of ...
... character and in feeling to the standard which Conservatism works in aris- tocracy . " He died at Torquay , January 18th , 1873 . DEMOSTHENES AND THE NOBILITY OF THE CLASSICS ( From the Address Delivered to the Associated Societies of ...
Page 2870
... character of na- tions , the science of ethics , the analysis of ideas , natural history , physical science , critical investigation , omne immensum peragravit ; and all that he collects from wisdom he applies to the earthly uses of man ...
... character of na- tions , the science of ethics , the analysis of ideas , natural history , physical science , critical investigation , omne immensum peragravit ; and all that he collects from wisdom he applies to the earthly uses of man ...
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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...