Forensic Declamations, for the Use of Schools and CollegesAbraham Howry Espenshade Silver, Burdett, and Company, 1901 - 202 pages |
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Page viii
... young men if they are to take an active part in public affairs . The well - trained public speaker and the skillful debater are likely to be among the most useful and most in- fluential members of any community . Before the student ...
... young men if they are to take an active part in public affairs . The well - trained public speaker and the skillful debater are likely to be among the most useful and most in- fluential members of any community . Before the student ...
Page ix
... young speaker can best learn the technique of his art . When he has once memorized a declamation , he is free to give his conscious attention to all the means of oratorical effect- iveness . He can then carefully attend to such im ...
... young speaker can best learn the technique of his art . When he has once memorized a declamation , he is free to give his conscious attention to all the means of oratorical effect- iveness . He can then carefully attend to such im ...
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... young man , he turned aside from the broad , fair highway to wealth , position , and distinction that the hands of a king opened before him , and casting his lot with the sect which was weakest and most unpopular in England , through ...
... young man , he turned aside from the broad , fair highway to wealth , position , and distinction that the hands of a king opened before him , and casting his lot with the sect which was weakest and most unpopular in England , through ...
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... young . He was Captain Miles of Concord , who said that he went to battle as he went to church . He was Captain Davis of Acton , who reproved his men for jesting on the march . He was Deacon Josiah Haynes of Sudbury , eighty years old ...
... young . He was Captain Miles of Concord , who said that he went to battle as he went to church . He was Captain Davis of Acton , who reproved his men for jesting on the march . He was Deacon Josiah Haynes of Sudbury , eighty years old ...
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... young officer permitted him to sit in his tent . He asked for the presence of a chaplain ; his request was refused . He asked for a Bible ; it was denied . But at the solicitation of the young officer he was furnished with writing ...
... young officer permitted him to sit in his tent . He asked for the presence of a chaplain ; his request was refused . He asked for a Bible ; it was denied . But at the solicitation of the young officer he was furnished with writing ...
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Page 19 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it, Sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us,...
Page 18 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges, for which we have been so long contending...
Page 20 - Gentlemen may cry peace, peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Page 87 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Page 37 - Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads; the same ocean rolla at your feet; but all else, how changed!
Page 19 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Page 17 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Page 12 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 18 - We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the Ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded, and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Page 19 - God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come!! 1 repeat it,...