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Page 8
Of necessity absorbed in the unexampled growth of a material civilization , the
meaning of our own recorded past has remained hitherto an enigma to us . There
has been little in its outward form to awaken interest . It is the history , for the most
...
Of necessity absorbed in the unexampled growth of a material civilization , the
meaning of our own recorded past has remained hitherto an enigma to us . There
has been little in its outward form to awaken interest . It is the history , for the most
...
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But I will not dwell upon this subject , only to ask of you fellow - citizens , who will
soon return to our common country and mingle in those discussions which divide
her citizens , to remember the great services of Mr Johnson in the past and to ...
But I will not dwell upon this subject , only to ask of you fellow - citizens , who will
soon return to our common country and mingle in those discussions which divide
her citizens , to remember the great services of Mr Johnson in the past and to ...
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... apply with some little alteration to the whole country , the beautiful eulogy ,
which Webster once confined to the state of Massachusett . « She needs no
encomium : there she is ; behold her , and judge for yourself . The Past at least is
secure .
... apply with some little alteration to the whole country , the beautiful eulogy ,
which Webster once confined to the state of Massachusett . « She needs no
encomium : there she is ; behold her , and judge for yourself . The Past at least is
secure .
Page 15
... apply with some little alteration to the whole country , the beautiful eulogy ,
which Webster once confined to the state of Massachusett . « She needs no
encomium : there she is ; behold her , and judge for yourself . The Past at least is
secure .
... apply with some little alteration to the whole country , the beautiful eulogy ,
which Webster once confined to the state of Massachusett . « She needs no
encomium : there she is ; behold her , and judge for yourself . The Past at least is
secure .
Page 6
... and rememin favor of our national unity and the para - ber that the Union has
been the source of all our Inount sovereignty of the people of the entire political
blessings in the past , and is the founda . Union does not stop here Let me quote
in ...
... and rememin favor of our national unity and the para - ber that the Union has
been the source of all our Inount sovereignty of the people of the entire political
blessings in the past , and is the founda . Union does not stop here Let me quote
in ...
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Page 5 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and, sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 25 - 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. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 4 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 18 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 8 - Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Page 21 - 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 10 - 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 13 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Page 4 - I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Page 5 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
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| Title | The Nation and the Constitution: An Oration Delivered Before the City Authorities and Citizens of Providence, July 4, 1866 |
| Author | Jeremiah Lewis Diman |
| Publisher | Providence Press Company, 1866 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 24 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 23 pages |
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