A Selection of Eulogies: Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of Those Illustrious Patriots and Statesmen, John Adams and Thomas JeffersonD. F. Robinson & Company, 1826 - 426 Seiten |
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... Heaven to the faithful devo- tee , had in all ages governed the world - that kings had been made by its thunders to tremble on their thrones , and that thrones had been shivered by the lightnings of its wrath . In casting his eyes over ...
... Heaven to the faithful devo- tee , had in all ages governed the world - that kings had been made by its thunders to tremble on their thrones , and that thrones had been shivered by the lightnings of its wrath . In casting his eyes over ...
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... Heaven had heard his prayers and crowned his wishes - Oh precious life ! Oh glorious death ! He has left to us my countrymen , a precious legacy -His last words were , " I resign myself to my God , and my child to my country . " And ...
... Heaven had heard his prayers and crowned his wishes - Oh precious life ! Oh glorious death ! He has left to us my countrymen , a precious legacy -His last words were , " I resign myself to my God , and my child to my country . " And ...
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... heaven to repose in the bosom of their God ! How solemn , how awful , how marked in the annals of uni- versal history , is this dispensation of all seeing Providence ! The messenger of death descended among us at a season when the ...
... heaven to repose in the bosom of their God ! How solemn , how awful , how marked in the annals of uni- versal history , is this dispensation of all seeing Providence ! The messenger of death descended among us at a season when the ...
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... heaven in depriving us of the de- parted patriots , we might seek consolation in the contempla- tion of their manly virtues , and of the exalted characters , which they have given to posterity for imitation . They , who ever walk in the ...
... heaven in depriving us of the de- parted patriots , we might seek consolation in the contempla- tion of their manly virtues , and of the exalted characters , which they have given to posterity for imitation . They , who ever walk in the ...
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... heaven to earth , from earth to heaven , And , as imagination bodies forth , The form of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . But it is not in poetry alone ...
... heaven to earth , from earth to heaven , And , as imagination bodies forth , The form of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . But it is not in poetry alone ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adams and Jefferson admiration American American Revolution appointed blessings Britain British cause character citizens civil colonies committee Constitution Continental Congress coun countrymen crown death Declaration of Independence defence dence devoted distinguished duties earth elected eloquence England EULOGY Europe fame fathers feelings fellow-citizens France Franklin freedom friends glorious glory gratitude hand happy heart Heaven honor human illustrious important interest James Otis Jefferson and Adams John Adams Jubilee July labors land liberty lives mankind Massachusetts measures memory ment mighty mind minister Monticello moral nation native never occasion opinions party Patrick Henry patriots peace Peyton Randolph political posterity President primogeniture principles Republic retirement revolution Richard Henry Lee sacred Samuel Adams solemn spirit talents Thomas Jefferson thought tion treaty United University of Virginia venerable Virginia virtues vote Washington wisdom writs of assistance
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 212 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments.
Seite 215 - Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust? I know we do not mean to submit. We never shall submit.
Seite 242 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Seite 101 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Seite 396 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Seite 424 - Here was buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of The Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.
Seite 262 - Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance. 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.
Seite 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Seite 230 - It cannot be denied, but by those who would dispute against the sun, that with America, and in America, a new era commences in human affairs. This era is distinguished by free representative governments, by entire religious liberty, by improved systems of national intercourse, by a newly awakened and an unconquerable spirit of free inquiry, and by a diffusion of knowledge through the community, such as has been before altogether unknown and unheard of.
Seite 242 - MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...