Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Volume 25Mayo Williamson Hazeltine P. F. Collier & Son, 1905 - 11114 pages |
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Page 10558
... Spain , " There are no more Pyrenees ! " The power of the human will , the vaulting ambition of one man , was so he thought - sufficient to remove this greatest of natural boundaries . My friends , do we forget the promise of Him who ...
... Spain , " There are no more Pyrenees ! " The power of the human will , the vaulting ambition of one man , was so he thought - sufficient to remove this greatest of natural boundaries . My friends , do we forget the promise of Him who ...
Page 10614
... Spain we see a war of dynasty ; in America a conflict of color . The night is dark and troubled ; we can but labor steadfastly , hoping for the dawn , united by the sympathy of the living and animated by the example of the dead ...
... Spain we see a war of dynasty ; in America a conflict of color . The night is dark and troubled ; we can but labor steadfastly , hoping for the dawn , united by the sympathy of the living and animated by the example of the dead ...
Page 10616
... he has , in a measure , understated the facts . I absolutely agree with him in the following conclusions : After three years of warfare and the use of 225,000 Spanish troops , Spain has lost control of every foot 10616 THURSTON.
... he has , in a measure , understated the facts . I absolutely agree with him in the following conclusions : After three years of warfare and the use of 225,000 Spanish troops , Spain has lost control of every foot 10616 THURSTON.
Page 10617
... Spain has lost control of every foot of Cuba not surrounded by an actual intrenchment and protected by a fortified picket line . She holds possession with her armies of the fortified sea- board towns , not because the insurgents could ...
... Spain has lost control of every foot of Cuba not surrounded by an actual intrenchment and protected by a fortified picket line . She holds possession with her armies of the fortified sea- board towns , not because the insurgents could ...
Page 10618
... Spain has never contributed one dollar to house , shelter , feed , or provide medical attention for these its own citizens . Such a spectacle exceeds the scenes of the Inferno as painted by Dante . There has been no amelioration of the ...
... Spain has never contributed one dollar to house , shelter , feed , or provide medical attention for these its own citizens . Such a spectacle exceeds the scenes of the Inferno as painted by Dante . There has been no amelioration of the ...
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Page 10703 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 10568 - With the help of your good hands. Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant ; And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer ; Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults.
Page 10659 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house ? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 10550 - For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.
Page 10855 - Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life...
Page 11002 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Page 10896 - There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training, a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
Page 10934 - O Beautiful ! my Country ! ours once more ! Smoothing thy gold of war-dishevelled hair O'er such sweet brows as never other wore, And letting thy set lips, Freed from wrath's pale eclipse, The rosy edges of their smile lay bare, What words divine of lover or of poet Could tell our love and make thee know it, Among the Nations bright beyond compare ? What were our lives without thee ? What all our lives to save thee ? We reck not what we gave thee ; We will not dare to doubt thee, But ask whatever...
Page 10871 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 10791 - For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not ; but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.