The Nation and the Constitution: An Oration Delivered Before the City Authorities and Citizens of Providence, July 4, 1866Providence Press Company, 1866 - 23 Seiten |
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... - stitutes our distinction as a nation . We have , in fact , suffered our instinct of nationality to become weakened by fixing our eyes too much on the written constitution . The government has veiled the older 16 ORATION .
... - stitutes our distinction as a nation . We have , in fact , suffered our instinct of nationality to become weakened by fixing our eyes too much on the written constitution . The government has veiled the older 16 ORATION .
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... becoming thankgivings and rejoicings , comme- morate the deeds , and hallow the memories of those , who , under God , wrought out for us our blessed inheritance and our National Glory . But first , in conformity to the time honoured ...
... becoming thankgivings and rejoicings , comme- morate the deeds , and hallow the memories of those , who , under God , wrought out for us our blessed inheritance and our National Glory . But first , in conformity to the time honoured ...
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... becomes a power ; ( and woman , God bless her , is « the power behind the throne , stonger than the throne itself » ) and it was the action of this power unified and aggregated that recently so astonished Europe ; nor have they yet com ...
... becomes a power ; ( and woman , God bless her , is « the power behind the throne , stonger than the throne itself » ) and it was the action of this power unified and aggregated that recently so astonished Europe ; nor have they yet com ...
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... become re- alities ; and , Secondly - Of those immutable principles of truth and justice , for the support of which the fathers pledged their lives , their fortunes , and their sacred honor The first proposition , then , to which I ...
... become re- alities ; and , Secondly - Of those immutable principles of truth and justice , for the support of which the fathers pledged their lives , their fortunes , and their sacred honor The first proposition , then , to which I ...
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... becomes of the oft - rep ated assump- of the earth . Each of the States was born inde tion that the States made the ... become the murderer of the mother who bore her . The Continental Congress finding that their cherished idea of a ...
... becomes of the oft - rep ated assump- of the earth . Each of the States was born inde tion that the States made the ... become the murderer of the mother who bore her . The Continental Congress finding that their cherished idea of a ...
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Seite 29 - 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!
Seite 5 - 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.
Seite 2 - 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...
Seite 28 - 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 6 - 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.
Seite 9 - 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...
Seite 29 - 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...