A Library of Universal Literature: In 4 Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations. Pt.3: Orations, Volume 4Collier, 1900 |
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... empire to ruin and contempt ! - " But yes- terday , and England might have stood against the world : now none so poor to do her reverence . I use the words of a poet ; but , though it be poetry , it is no fiction . It is a shameful ...
... empire to ruin and contempt ! - " But yes- terday , and England might have stood against the world : now none so poor to do her reverence . I use the words of a poet ; but , though it be poetry , it is no fiction . It is a shameful ...
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... empire . The sound parts of America , of which I have spoken , must be sensible of these great truths and of their real interests . America is not in that state of desperate and contemptible rebellion which this country has been de ...
... empire . The sound parts of America , of which I have spoken , must be sensible of these great truths and of their real interests . America is not in that state of desperate and contemptible rebellion which this country has been de ...
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... empire ; again to awe the House of Bourbon , instead of meanly truckling , as our present calamities compel us , to every insult of French caprice and Spanish punctilio ; to re - establish our commerce ; to reassert our rights and our ...
... empire ; again to awe the House of Bourbon , instead of meanly truckling , as our present calamities compel us , to every insult of French caprice and Spanish punctilio ; to re - establish our commerce ; to reassert our rights and our ...
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... empire . Something of this sort seemed to be indispensable , in order , amid so vast a fluctuation of passions and opinions , to concentre my thoughts ; to bal- last my conduct ; to preserve me from being blown about by every wind of ...
... empire . Something of this sort seemed to be indispensable , in order , amid so vast a fluctuation of passions and opinions , to concentre my thoughts ; to bal- last my conduct ; to preserve me from being blown about by every wind of ...
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... , and there are occasions when any , even the slightest , chance of doing good , must be laid hold on , even by the most incon- siderable person . To restore order and repose to an empire so great ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA 21.
... , and there are occasions when any , even the slightest , chance of doing good , must be laid hold on , even by the most incon- siderable person . To restore order and repose to an empire so great ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA 21.
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