The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to Ư the Present Time, Volume 2F. P. Kaiser, 1899 The text of thousands of speeches from all historical periods through the 19th century arranged in alphabetical order,. |
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Page 414
... evil , upon the condition of his coun- try . This is the proper time for such a view to be taken . The political existence of this great man now draws to a close . In little more than forty days he ceases to be a public character . In a ...
... evil , upon the condition of his coun- try . This is the proper time for such a view to be taken . The political existence of this great man now draws to a close . In little more than forty days he ceases to be a public character . In a ...
Page 415
... evil has been predicted , and from whom so much good has come ? Never has any man 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 ...
... evil has been predicted , and from whom so much good has come ? Never has any man 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 ...
Page 420
... evil before it happens , and to arrest it by precautionary meas- ures , than it requires to apply an adequate remedy to the same evil after it has happened , yet the applause bestowed by the world is always greatest in the latter case ...
... evil before it happens , and to arrest it by precautionary meas- ures , than it requires to apply an adequate remedy to the same evil after it has happened , yet the applause bestowed by the world is always greatest in the latter case ...
Page 439
... evil is upon us . The territory which we have acquired by an expenditure of blood and treasure is about to subject us - unless under the mercy of Providence , we are guided by wiser counsels than those we have exhibited to an ...
... evil is upon us . The territory which we have acquired by an expenditure of blood and treasure is about to subject us - unless under the mercy of Providence , we are guided by wiser counsels than those we have exhibited to an ...
Page 471
... evil , to main- tain them inviolate , I do not know who he is . I respect the State constitution . Perhaps I am prejudiced in favor of natural justice and equality . I am convinced that without the enforce- ment of the fundamental law ...
... evil , to main- tain them inviolate , I do not know who he is . I respect the State constitution . Perhaps I am prejudiced in favor of natural justice and equality . I am convinced that without the enforce- ment of the fundamental law ...
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Page 817 - 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 558 - 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 708 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 526 - 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 811 - 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 716 - 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 738 - ... 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 717 - 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 738 - 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.
Page 817 - No! the charges against me are all of one kind ; that I have pushed the principles of general justice and benevolence too far, — further than a cautious policy would warrant, and further than the opinions of many would go along with me. In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress, I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.