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 2855
... enemy , and , though foreigners , showed more attachment to the country in which we lived than such citizens as Eratosthenes to their native land ? By them many Athenians were driven from their country and obliged to take refuge among ...
... enemy , and , though foreigners , showed more attachment to the country in which we lived than such citizens as Eratosthenes to their native land ? By them many Athenians were driven from their country and obliged to take refuge among ...
Page 2858
... enemy , the cities joined to your alliance . Let them speak - when did you kill as many of our enemies abroad as you murdered of our citizens at home ? When did you seize as many of their ships as you betrayed of ours ? What city did ...
... enemy , the cities joined to your alliance . Let them speak - when did you kill as many of our enemies abroad as you murdered of our citizens at home ? When did you seize as many of their ships as you betrayed of ours ? What city did ...
Page 2859
... enemies both foreign and domestic : for the cabal well knew they could never build their influence on any other foun- dation than the ruins of their country . Hence their enmity to the State ; hence their contrivance to render your own ...
... enemies both foreign and domestic : for the cabal well knew they could never build their influence on any other foun- dation than the ruins of their country . Hence their enmity to the State ; hence their contrivance to render your own ...
Page 2860
... enemy , and sacrificing every scruple of conscience to the interest of their country . Let the witnesses be called and examined . [ The witnesses are exam- ined , and the orator proceeds . ] You hear , then , that their testi- mony is ...
... enemy , and sacrificing every scruple of conscience to the interest of their country . Let the witnesses be called and examined . [ The witnesses are exam- ined , and the orator proceeds . ] You hear , then , that their testi- mony is ...
Page 2861
... enemies than after Thrasybulus had got possession of Phyle ? But , instead of co - operating with this deliverer of his country , Eratosthenes departed with his partners in power to Salamis and Eleusis , after throwing into confinement ...
... enemies than after Thrasybulus had got possession of Phyle ? But , instead of co - operating with this deliverer of his country , Eratosthenes departed with his partners in power to Salamis and Eleusis , after throwing into confinement ...
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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...