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 10605
... recently , and though he was somewhat over eight years old he weighed but 52 pounds , and was employed carrying 43 pounds of clay on his head an average distance of 15 miles daily , and worked 73 THE TRUE LEVERAGE OF EMPIRE 10605.
... recently , and though he was somewhat over eight years old he weighed but 52 pounds , and was employed carrying 43 pounds of clay on his head an average distance of 15 miles daily , and worked 73 THE TRUE LEVERAGE OF EMPIRE 10605.
Page 10624
... carried out by its administrations . I have no reason to doubt , I have every reason to believe , that the present Chief Magistrate of the United States still stands upon the platform of the Republican party . I have no reason to doubt ...
... carried out by its administrations . I have no reason to doubt , I have every reason to believe , that the present Chief Magistrate of the United States still stands upon the platform of the Republican party . I have no reason to doubt ...
Page 10628
... carry on government for themselves . Such intervention on our part would not of itself be war . It would undoubtedly lead to war . But if war came it would come by act of Spain in resistance of the liberty and the independence of the ...
... carry on government for themselves . Such intervention on our part would not of itself be war . It would undoubtedly lead to war . But if war came it would come by act of Spain in resistance of the liberty and the independence of the ...
Page 10629
... carried off his feet . " I know of no warrant for such an assertion , but I do know this , that unless Congress acts promptly , meeting this grave crisis as it should be met , we will be swept away , and we ought to be swept away , by ...
... carried off his feet . " I know of no warrant for such an assertion , but I do know this , that unless Congress acts promptly , meeting this grave crisis as it should be met , we will be swept away , and we ought to be swept away , by ...
Page 10633
... carried except by force ? Force compelled the signature of unwilling royalty to the great Magna Charter ; force put life into the Declaration of Independence and made effective the Emancipation Proclama- tion ; force beat with naked ...
... carried except by force ? Force compelled the signature of unwilling royalty to the great Magna Charter ; force put life into the Declaration of Independence and made effective the Emancipation Proclama- tion ; force beat with naked ...
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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.