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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... prosperity of your county ? Certainly it is the possession of civil and religious liberty , --as the great cause of the downfall of Spain , so powerful three centuries ago , is the want of civil and religious liberty . But as you owe ...
... prosperity of your county ? Certainly it is the possession of civil and religious liberty , --as the great cause of the downfall of Spain , so powerful three centuries ago , is the want of civil and religious liberty . But as you owe ...
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... prosperity of your county ? Certainly it is the possession of civil and religious liberty , as the great cause of the downfall of Spain , so powerful three centuries ago , is the want of civil and religious liberty . But as you owe ...
... prosperity of your county ? Certainly it is the possession of civil and religious liberty , as the great cause of the downfall of Spain , so powerful three centuries ago , is the want of civil and religious liberty . But as you owe ...
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... prosperity over the whole of our broad country , from the Lakes to the Gulf , and from the Atlantic to the Pacific . Your celebration may be the more enjoyable , being held within the boundaries of the republic of the old world , — in ...
... prosperity over the whole of our broad country , from the Lakes to the Gulf , and from the Atlantic to the Pacific . Your celebration may be the more enjoyable , being held within the boundaries of the republic of the old world , — in ...
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... prosperity of the government was felt to be the stability and prosperity of the people . The citizen had an interest in his govern- ment and was attached to its institutions . He was patriotic . Nothing is more lovely , more beautiful ...
... prosperity of the government was felt to be the stability and prosperity of the people . The citizen had an interest in his govern- ment and was attached to its institutions . He was patriotic . Nothing is more lovely , more beautiful ...
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... prosperity will shine upon the republic . For nations , as for individuals , there is always but one right path to follow . For rulers and statesmen , as for people , there is but one way to honor . For us all , the path of duty is the ...
... prosperity will shine upon the republic . For nations , as for individuals , there is always but one right path to follow . For rulers and statesmen , as for people , there is but one way to honor . For us all , the path of duty is the ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American arms army articles of confederation authority battle beautiful blessings blood Boston Boston Massacre British cause celebration century CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS Cheers church citizens civil colonies common Congress Constitution continent Continental Congress Declaration of Independence despotism divine duty earth England equal Europe faith fathers fellow-citizens flag Fourth of July freedom future Gent allow glory grand hands happy heart heroes honor hope human hundred institutions John Adams justice King labor land legislation live loyal manhood Massachusetts ment Messieurs mighty millions moral nation never noble ocean old world ORATION ORATION DELIVERED patriotism peace peril Philibert Berthelier political present principles progress prosperity race rebellion religious liberty republic republican revolution rich ship Sitka slavery soil sovereignty spirit struggle territory thirteen colonies thousand tion to-day toast triumph true truth Union United victory virtue Washington WASHINGTON HEIGHTS wealth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 11 - 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 19 - 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 28 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Seite 22 - 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 12 - 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 14 - 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.
Seite 28 - I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Seite 11 - 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...