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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... Republic , " is some principle or passion in the minds of the people . " Nations are only larger men , like men endowed with individual life , obeying analogous laws of growth subject , alas , as the silent gates of Thebes , the ...
... Republic , " is some principle or passion in the minds of the people . " Nations are only larger men , like men endowed with individual life , obeying analogous laws of growth subject , alas , as the silent gates of Thebes , the ...
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... Republic has been equally applied to the Dutch Confederation , in which dwelt no direct principle of popular liberty ; to Poland , the most oppressive com- pound the world has ever seen , of monarchy and aris- tocracy ; to the Italian ...
... Republic has been equally applied to the Dutch Confederation , in which dwelt no direct principle of popular liberty ; to Poland , the most oppressive com- pound the world has ever seen , of monarchy and aris- tocracy ; to the Italian ...
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... Republic . When set up as a stay to hasty or illegal action , the maxim is a most sound and wholesome one . For it is unquestionably true that with reference to any private action the law is sov- ereign . The organic claims allegiance ...
... Republic . When set up as a stay to hasty or illegal action , the maxim is a most sound and wholesome one . For it is unquestionably true that with reference to any private action the law is sov- ereign . The organic claims allegiance ...
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... Republic decried and denounced , with prophets of evil predicting that she was fit only for smooth seas and summer gales , across a darker and a stormier sea has held her victorious course , and to- day , in the pride of unbroken ...
... Republic decried and denounced , with prophets of evil predicting that she was fit only for smooth seas and summer gales , across a darker and a stormier sea has held her victorious course , and to- day , in the pride of unbroken ...
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... by small means , He made use of this little republic , to be one of the chief instruments of His marvel- lous plan . We have had heroes and martyrs of liberty and mar- 2 « tyrs are more than heroes , for they give 17.
... by small means , He made use of this little republic , to be one of the chief instruments of His marvel- lous plan . We have had heroes and martyrs of liberty and mar- 2 « tyrs are more than heroes , for they give 17.
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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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...