The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 2F. P. Kaiser, 1901 |
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Page 415
... entered upon the chief magistracy of a country under such appalling pre- dictions of ruin and woe ! Never has any one been so pursued with direful prognostications ! Never has any one been so beset and impeded by a powerful combination ...
... entered upon the chief magistracy of a country under such appalling pre- dictions of ruin and woe ! Never has any one been so pursued with direful prognostications ! Never has any one been so beset and impeded by a powerful combination ...
Page 438
... entered into by the government of the Confederation should be obligatory upon the government of the United States established by the Consti- tution . Here , then , was a contract entered into between Virginia and the Federal Congress ...
... entered into by the government of the Confederation should be obligatory upon the government of the United States established by the Consti- tution . Here , then , was a contract entered into between Virginia and the Federal Congress ...
Page 449
... entering the box with Booth was detailed to lie in wait , and watch and support him ? His declarations of his reasons for changing his lodgings here and in Baltimore , after the murder , so ably and so ingeniously presented in the ...
... entering the box with Booth was detailed to lie in wait , and watch and support him ? His declarations of his reasons for changing his lodgings here and in Baltimore , after the murder , so ably and so ingeniously presented in the ...
Page 451
... entered the theatre by the stage door , doubtless to see that the way was clear from the box to the rear door of the theatre , and look upon their vic- tim , whose exact position they could study from the stage . After this view , Booth ...
... entered the theatre by the stage door , doubtless to see that the way was clear from the box to the rear door of the theatre , and look upon their vic- tim , whose exact position they could study from the stage . After this view , Booth ...
Page 452
... entered upon the duties of his great office " with malice toward none , with charity for all . " In a moment more , strengthened by the knowledge that his co - con- spirators were all at their posts , seven at least of them present in ...
... entered upon the duties of his great office " with malice toward none , with charity for all . " In a moment more , strengthened by the knowledge that his co - con- spirators were all at their posts , seven at least of them present in ...
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Page 811 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 554 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Page 713 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 547 - And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. From henceforth let no man trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
Page 520 - The Congress, the Executive, and the court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 805 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Curdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Page 710 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Page 734 - ... mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay'. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs.
Page 711 - If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven ; whereof I Paul am made a minister...
Page 734 - Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.