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" ... any proportion to my zeal, I would swell my voice to such a note of remonstrance, it should reach every log-house beyond the mountains. I would say to the inhabitants, Wake from your false security... "
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 - Page 27
by Michael R. Beschloss - 2007 - 400 pages
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History of Oratory and Orators: A Study of the Influence of Oratory Upon ...

Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 476 pages
...Your cruel dangers, your more cruel apprehensions, are soon to be removed. The wounds, yet unhcaled, are to be torn open again. In the daytime, your path...glitter with the blaze of your dwellings. You are a father,—the blood of your sons shall fatten your corn-fields ! You are a mother,—the war-whoop...
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History of Oratory and Orators: A Study of the Influence of Oratory Upon ...

Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 546 pages
...from your false security! Your cruel dangers, your more cruel apprehensions, are soon to be removed. The wounds, yet unhealed, are to be torn open again....path through the woods will be ambushed. The darkness •f midnight will glitter with the blaze of your dwellings. You are a father,—the blood of your...
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The World's Great Classics: Orations of American orators

Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 500 pages
...from your false security ; your cruel dangers, your more cruel apprehensions are soon to be renewed ; the wounds, yet unhealed, are to be torn open again...father — the blood of your sons shall fatten your cornfields : you are a mother — the war-whoop shall wake the sleep of the cradle. On this subject...
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Orations of American Orators: American Independence

1899 - 500 pages
...from your false security ; your cruel dangers, your more cruel apprehensions are soon to be renewed ; the wounds, yet unhealed, are to be torn open again...father — the blood of your sons shall fatten your cornfields : you are a mother — the war-whoop shall wake the sleep of the cradle. On this subject...
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Speech-making: Explicit Instructions for the Building and Delivery of Speeches

Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1911 - 278 pages
...from your false security ; your cruel dangers, your more cruel apprehensions are soon to be renewed; the wounds, yet unhealed, are to be torn open again;...midnight will glitter with the blaze of your dwellings. Tou are a father — the blood of your sons shall fatten your cornfield; you are a mother — the warwhoop...
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Jefferson and Hamilton: The Struggle for Democracy in America

Claude Gernade Bowers - 1925 - 580 pages
...from your false security, your cruel dangers, your more cruel apprehensions are soon to be renewed; the wounds yet unhealed, are to be torn open again; in the day time your path through the woods will be ambushed, the darkness of midnight will glitter with the...
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Jefferson and Hamilton: The Struggle for Democracy in America

Claude Gernade Bowers - 1925 - 596 pages
...from your false security, your cruel dangers, your more cruel apprehensions are soon to be renewed; the wounds yet unhealed, are to be torn open again; in the day time your path through the woods will be ambushed, the darkness of midnight will glitter with the...
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History of American Oratory

Warren Choate Shaw - 1928 - 694 pages
...from your false.. security : your cruel dangers, your more cruel apprehensions are soon to be renewed: the wounds, yet unhealed, are to be torn open again: in the day time, your path through the woods will be ambushed: the darkness of midnight will glitter with...
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American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis

James Roger Sharp - 1993 - 388 pages
...exclaimed, hoping his voice would "reach every log-house beyond the mountains," for in "the day time, your path through the woods will be ambushed; the...darkness of midnight will glitter with the blaze of your dwelling." And with horrifyingly violent and bloody images, he warned: "You are a father: the blood...
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Eloquence is Power: Oratory & Performance in Early America

Sandra M. Gustafson - 2000 - 320 pages
...your false security! Your cruel dangers— your more cruel apprehensions— are soon to be renewed; the wounds, yet unhealed, are to be torn open again. In the day time, your path through the woods will be ambushed; the darkness of midnight will glitter with...
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