The Republican Compiler: Comprising a Series of Scientific, Descriptive, Narrative, Popular, Biographical, Epistolary, and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse |
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... effects . Biographical notices of men , eminent for their learning , virtue , or patriotism , it is to be presumed will add some- what to the merits of a book , which is solely intended for the use of young students . The introduction ...
... effects . Biographical notices of men , eminent for their learning , virtue , or patriotism , it is to be presumed will add some- what to the merits of a book , which is solely intended for the use of young students . The introduction ...
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... effect in promoting them , has told the world that All a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools . But happily the doctrine , that ridicule is the test of truth , has never obtained the assent of the rational part of ...
... effect in promoting them , has told the world that All a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools . But happily the doctrine , that ridicule is the test of truth , has never obtained the assent of the rational part of ...
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... effects ; and that can be in no other state of things , than where the power of persuasion operates upon the will , and prompts the actions of other men . The only birth place of eloquence therefore must be a free state . Under ...
... effects ; and that can be in no other state of things , than where the power of persuasion operates upon the will , and prompts the actions of other men . The only birth place of eloquence therefore must be a free state . Under ...
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... effect of ignorance , the popularity of the speeches of Mr. Curran has a good deal contributed . Mr. Curran is certainly eminently gifted with very high powers of eloquence , but is perhaps a dangerous model for imitation ; and if to be ...
... effect of ignorance , the popularity of the speeches of Mr. Curran has a good deal contributed . Mr. Curran is certainly eminently gifted with very high powers of eloquence , but is perhaps a dangerous model for imitation ; and if to be ...
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... effect . The very first time , indeed , that a young person begins to compose , the thing is so new to him , that it is apt to appear dark and diffi- cult , and in a manner impossible . But as soon as he be- comes a little accustomed to ...
... effect . The very first time , indeed , that a young person begins to compose , the thing is so new to him , that it is apt to appear dark and diffi- cult , and in a manner impossible . But as soon as he be- comes a little accustomed to ...
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Page 134 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, — but there is no peace.
Page 104 - Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Page 134 - Besides, sir, we have no election. " If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable. And let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace.
Page 134 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak, — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week — or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed; and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Page 242 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 242 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Page 104 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Page 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the tenth day of August, AD 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JP Dabney, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit...
Page 17 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Page 133 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.