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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... and Man NEWMAN , JOHN HENRY , CARDINAL 1801-1890 3093 Property as a Disadvantage O'CONNELL , Daniel 1775-1847 3098 Ireland Worth Dying For Demanding Justice LIVED PAGE 1765-1848 3111 OTIS , HARRISON GRAY Hamilton's Influence vii.
... and Man NEWMAN , JOHN HENRY , CARDINAL 1801-1890 3093 Property as a Disadvantage O'CONNELL , Daniel 1775-1847 3098 Ireland Worth Dying For Demanding Justice LIVED PAGE 1765-1848 3111 OTIS , HARRISON GRAY Hamilton's Influence vii.
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... justice against us for some enormous offense . But did we deserve such a treatment ; we who so liberally dis- tributed our fortunes for the public interest and often lavished it for the public amusement ; we who , always behaving with ...
... justice against us for some enormous offense . But did we deserve such a treatment ; we who so liberally dis- tributed our fortunes for the public interest and often lavished it for the public amusement ; we who , always behaving with ...
Page 2858
... justice will still pursue and overtake them , deprive them of their usurped pre - eminence , and confound them with the meanest criminals . Now is the time to justify before strangers the expulsion of your tyrants ; for if they perceive ...
... justice will still pursue and overtake them , deprive them of their usurped pre - eminence , and confound them with the meanest criminals . Now is the time to justify before strangers the expulsion of your tyrants ; for if they perceive ...
Page 2880
... justice , however , if he is ill informed on these points , there are other points on which New- ton and Laplace were mere children when compared with him . He can cast your nativity . He knows what will happen when Saturn is in the ...
... justice , however , if he is ill informed on these points , there are other points on which New- ton and Laplace were mere children when compared with him . He can cast your nativity . He knows what will happen when Saturn is in the ...
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... justice , however , if he is ill informed on these points , there are other points on which New- ton and Laplace were mere children when compared with him . He can cast your nativity . He knows what will happen when Saturn is in the ...
... justice , however , if he is ill informed on these points , there are other points on which New- ton and Laplace were mere children when compared with him . He can cast your nativity . He knows what will happen when Saturn is in the ...
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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...