The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces; Together with Rules; Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of EloquenceWilliam S. Parker, 1821 - 300 Seiten |
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... virtue . He bas fpared no pains to render the Work , in every respect , worthy of the gen- erous patronage , which a liberal public have beftowed on his former publications . BOSTON , May 17 , 1797 . } ENERAL Inftructions for Speaking ...
... virtue . He bas fpared no pains to render the Work , in every respect , worthy of the gen- erous patronage , which a liberal public have beftowed on his former publications . BOSTON , May 17 , 1797 . } ENERAL Inftructions for Speaking ...
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... virtue , rife in our breafts ; and tears are extorted from us for oppreffed innocence though at the fame time , perhaps , we are ready to laugh at ourselves for being thus decoyed . If art then has fo great an influence upon us , when ...
... virtue , rife in our breafts ; and tears are extorted from us for oppreffed innocence though at the fame time , perhaps , we are ready to laugh at ourselves for being thus decoyed . If art then has fo great an influence upon us , when ...
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... virtue ; and , in one word , to roufe to action all the latent energies of man , in the proper and ardent purfuit of the great end of his exiftence , is the orator's pleasing , benevolent , fublime employment . Nor let it be objected ...
... virtue ; and , in one word , to roufe to action all the latent energies of man , in the proper and ardent purfuit of the great end of his exiftence , is the orator's pleasing , benevolent , fublime employment . Nor let it be objected ...
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... all others , our republic ac knowledges no exifting fuperior . And we truft , that , as our facred teachers make it their conftant endeavor to imitate the great learning , the exemplary virtue , THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . 33.
... all others , our republic ac knowledges no exifting fuperior . And we truft , that , as our facred teachers make it their conftant endeavor to imitate the great learning , the exemplary virtue , THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . 33.
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... virtue , the exalted piety , and the extenfive usefulness of the great apoftle of the Gentiles , they will not fail to re- femble him in that commanding , that heavenly elo- quence , which made an avaricious , an unbelieving Fe- lix ...
... virtue , the exalted piety , and the extenfive usefulness of the great apoftle of the Gentiles , they will not fail to re- femble him in that commanding , that heavenly elo- quence , which made an avaricious , an unbelieving Fe- lix ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Seite 261 - France, my lords, has insulted you ; she has encouraged and sustained America; and whether America be wrong or right, the dignity of this country ought to spurn at the officious insult of French interference. The ministers and...
Seite 149 - Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man, who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations...
Seite 149 - THOUGH in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am, nevertheless, too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils, to which they may tend.
Seite 149 - ... guarantee of the plans by which they were effected. Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with me to my grave as a strong incitement to unceasing vows that Heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence; that your union and...
Seite 60 - I know the valour of your troops. I know the skill of your officers. There is not a company of foot that has served in America out of which you may not pick a man of sufficient knowledge and experience to make a governor of a colony there.
Seite 34 - ... day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision...
Seite 147 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this .resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Seite 263 - ... impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Seite 260 - This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment ! It is not a time for adulation. The smoothness of flattery cannot now avail; cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Seite 96 - Experience might inform them that many, who have been saluted with the huzzas of a crowd one day, have received their execrations the next ; and many, who by the popularity of their times, have been held up as spotless patriots, have, nevertheless, appeared upon the historian's page, when truth has triumphed over delusion, the assassins of liberty.