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... glory , and the happiness of man . These are the pillars which fupport the fair fabric of eloquence ; the foundation , upon which is erected the most magnificent edifice , that genius could defign , or art construct . To cultivate elo ...
... glory , and the happiness of man . These are the pillars which fupport the fair fabric of eloquence ; the foundation , upon which is erected the most magnificent edifice , that genius could defign , or art construct . To cultivate elo ...
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... glory of eloquence . To promote the innocent and refined pleasures of the fancy and intellect ; to strip the monster vice of all his borrowed charms , and expofe to view his native defor- mity ; to difplay the refiftlefs attractions of ...
... glory of eloquence . To promote the innocent and refined pleasures of the fancy and intellect ; to strip the monster vice of all his borrowed charms , and expofe to view his native defor- mity ; to difplay the refiftlefs attractions of ...
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... glory is foon to fade ; for Cicero appears ; Cicero , another name for eloquence itfelf . It is needless to enlarge on his character as an orator . Suffice it fay , that if we ranfack the hiftories of the world to find a rival for ...
... glory is foon to fade ; for Cicero appears ; Cicero , another name for eloquence itfelf . It is needless to enlarge on his character as an orator . Suffice it fay , that if we ranfack the hiftories of the world to find a rival for ...
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... glory and her felicity increafe with each revolving year , till the laft trump fhall announce the catastrophe of nature , and time fhall emerge in the ocean of eternity . EXTRACT FROM PRESIDENT WASHINGTON'S FIRST SPEECH IN CONGRESS ...
... glory and her felicity increafe with each revolving year , till the laft trump fhall announce the catastrophe of nature , and time fhall emerge in the ocean of eternity . EXTRACT FROM PRESIDENT WASHINGTON'S FIRST SPEECH IN CONGRESS ...
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... glory ; no lefs fpa- cious ; no lefs luminous than the radiant fource of our day . So that every ftar is not barely a world , but the centre of a magnificent fyftem ; has a retinne of worlds , irradiated by its beams , and revolving ...
... glory ; no lefs fpa- cious ; no lefs luminous than the radiant fource of our day . So that every ftar is not barely a world , but the centre of a magnificent fyftem ; has a retinne of worlds , irradiated by its beams , and revolving ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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.