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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... century , the colonies con- tended , that representation and taxation were insepa- rable , though they claimed to be standing on the plat- form of old English liberty , yet it was evident that they asserted a theory of representation ...
... century , the colonies con- tended , that representation and taxation were insepa- rable , though they claimed to be standing on the plat- form of old English liberty , yet it was evident that they asserted a theory of representation ...
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... century after his death by their bringing his bust in their midst with this inscription « Nothing was wanting to his glory he was wanting to ours . The time will come , I think when the Genevese will do the like , justice to them ...
... century after his death by their bringing his bust in their midst with this inscription « Nothing was wanting to his glory he was wanting to ours . The time will come , I think when the Genevese will do the like , justice to them ...
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... century , grew into the lion's roar : and is now the authoritative utterance of the whole people . - Most fitly , M. President , have you coupled the name of Switzerland with that of the United States , twin repu- blics of the old and ...
... century , grew into the lion's roar : and is now the authoritative utterance of the whole people . - Most fitly , M. President , have you coupled the name of Switzerland with that of the United States , twin repu- blics of the old and ...
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... centuries here , the struggle for freedom has gone on : and though it has been less long with us it has not been less intense . If not our entire history , the last ten years of it , have shown where we stand . We have not shrunk from ...
... centuries here , the struggle for freedom has gone on : and though it has been less long with us it has not been less intense . If not our entire history , the last ten years of it , have shown where we stand . We have not shrunk from ...
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... century - Voltaire , « Je ne décide pas entre Genève et Rome . » In other countries were all struggling during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries against the popes , the Jesuits , the inquisitors , and liberty triumphed . Civilisation was ...
... century - Voltaire , « Je ne décide pas entre Genève et Rome . » In other countries were all struggling during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries against the popes , the Jesuits , the inquisitors , and liberty triumphed . Civilisation was ...
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Beliebte Passagen
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...