Modern Eloquence, Volume 7Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 - Speeches, addresses, etc |
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Aaron Burr Abraham Lincoln American beautiful believe born Breckinridge called century CHAMP CLARK character Christianity church citizen civilization common conscience Constitution Demosthenes duty earth eloquence England English faith feel force Garfield genius George William Curtis greatest Greek happy heart Henry van Dyke honor human ill-used influence intellectual interest John John Adams Kentucky kingdom kingdom of God knowledge labor language learning liberty ligion literary literature living look Lowell mankind Marcus Aurelius means ment mind moral nature never orator oratory party passion patriotism philosophy poet poetry political President principles race reason religion religious Robert Emmet Roman RUFUS CHOATE self-culture Senate sense society soul speak speech spirit Stoics things thought tion to-day true truth universal voice Washington whole words
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Page 305 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Page 194 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Page 299 - Citizens by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Page 261 - OVER his keys the musing organist, Beginning doubtfully and far away, First lets his fingers wander as they list, And builds a bridge from Dreamland for his lay : Then, as the touch of his loved instrument Gives hope and fervor, nearer draws his theme, First guessed by faint auroral flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream.
Page 127 - No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape ; back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes : What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ! But who comes here ? Enter Escalus, Provost, Bawd, and Officers.
Page 318 - It was but the other day, that we were shedding our blood to obtain the constitutions under which we now live ; constitutions of our own choice and making ; and now we are unsheathing the sword to overturn them. The thing is so unaccountable, that I hardly know how to realize it, or to persuade myself, that I am not under the illusion of a dream.
Page 384 - Is it well that while we range with Science, glorying in the Time, City children soak and blacken soul and sense in city slime ? There among the glooming alleys Progress halts on palsied feet, Crime and hunger cast our maidens by the thousand on the street.
Page 143 - He chose David also his servant : and took him away from the sheep-folds. 72 As he was following the ewes great with young ones he took him : that he might feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. 73 So he fed them with a faithful and true heart : and ruled them prudently with all his power.
Page 387 - I live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me. And awaits my spirit, too; For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance. For the future in the distance. And the good that I can do.
Page 315 - I see one head gradually changing into thirteen. I see one army branching into thirteen, which, instead of looking up to Congress as the supreme controlling power of the United States, are considering themselves as dependent on their respective States.