The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 8F. P. Kaiser, 1901 - 4107 pages The text of thousands of speeches from all historical periods through the 19th century arranged in alphabetical order. |
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Page 2855
... hand . So shameful was their conduct to him , though they had acquired seven hundred shields , the manufacture of our slaves , much gold , silver , and brass , with all sorts of furniture , and such a quantity of women's dresses and ...
... hand . So shameful was their conduct to him , though they had acquired seven hundred shields , the manufacture of our slaves , much gold , silver , and brass , with all sorts of furniture , and such a quantity of women's dresses and ...
Page 2871
... hand and weaves them into regal diadems . Dignity and polish are the especial at- tributes of Latin literature in its happiest age ; it betrays the ha- bitual influence of an aristocracy , wealthy , magnificent , and learned . To borrow ...
... hand and weaves them into regal diadems . Dignity and polish are the especial at- tributes of Latin literature in its happiest age ; it betrays the ha- bitual influence of an aristocracy , wealthy , magnificent , and learned . To borrow ...
Page 2879
... all the hogsheads of a cellar . In his next voyage he is among men sixty feet high . He who in Lilliput used to take people up in his hand in order that he might be able to hear them , is himself taken THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 2879.
... all the hogsheads of a cellar . In his next voyage he is among men sixty feet high . He who in Lilliput used to take people up in his hand in order that he might be able to hear them , is himself taken THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 2879.
Page 2880
... hands and held to the ears of his masters . It is all that he can do to defend himself with his hanger against the rats and mice . The court ladies amuse themselves with seeing him fight wasps and frogs ; the monkey runs off with him to ...
... hands and held to the ears of his masters . It is all that he can do to defend himself with his hanger against the rats and mice . The court ladies amuse themselves with seeing him fight wasps and frogs ; the monkey runs off with him to ...
Page 2881
... hand , and soon all his kettles and gridirons will be turned into pure gold . Poor Professor Faraday can do nothing of the sort . I should deceive you if I held out to you the smallest hope that he will ever turn your halfpence into ...
... hand , and soon all his kettles and gridirons will be turned into pure gold . Poor Professor Faraday can do nothing of the sort . I should deceive you if I held out to you the smallest hope that he will ever turn your halfpence into ...
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Page 3237 - 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 2988 - ... 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 3141 - 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 3017 - 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 3015 - 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 3035 - 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 3018 - 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 3094 - 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 3015 - 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...
Page 3220 - With as deep a reverence for the True as ever inspired the bosom of man, I would, nevertheless, limit, in some measure, its modes of inculcation. I would limit to enforce them. I would not enfeeble them by dissipation. The demands of Truth are severe. She has no sympathy with the myrtles.