Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Volume 20Mayo Williamson Hazeltine |
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Page 8340
... being " long already happily dead , " on being " wrapt in his shroud and forever safe . " With how firm a touch he delineates the faults of your two great political parties of forty years ago ! The Democrats 8340 ARNOLD.
... being " long already happily dead , " on being " wrapt in his shroud and forever safe . " With how firm a touch he delineates the faults of your two great political parties of forty years ago ! The Democrats 8340 ARNOLD.
Page 8341
... Democrats , he says , " have not at heart the ends which give to the name of democracy what hope and virtue are in it . The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless ; it is not loving ; it has no ulterior and divine ...
... Democrats , he says , " have not at heart the ends which give to the name of democracy what hope and virtue are in it . The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless ; it is not loving ; it has no ulterior and divine ...
Page 8350
... " Plato's picture here of democratic Athens is certainly gloomy enough . We may be sure the mass of his contem- poraries would have pronounced it to be monstrously over charged . We ourselves , if we had been living 8350 ARNOLD.
... " Plato's picture here of democratic Athens is certainly gloomy enough . We may be sure the mass of his contem- poraries would have pronounced it to be monstrously over charged . We ourselves , if we had been living 8350 ARNOLD.
Page 8351
... democracy had vanished , while all the pernicious germs contained in it were fully developed . A life of comfort and ... democrats , " says the same his- torian whom I have just quoted , " saw in Eubulus one of their own set at the head ...
... democracy had vanished , while all the pernicious germs contained in it were fully developed . A life of comfort and ... democrats , " says the same his- torian whom I have just quoted , " saw in Eubulus one of their own set at the head ...
Page 8353
... democratic Athens , so in the kingdoms of the Hebrew nation , were unsound , and their state was doomed . This was Isaiah's point . The actual commonwealth of the " drunkards " and the " blind , " as he calls them , in Israel and Judah ...
... democratic Athens , so in the kingdoms of the Hebrew nation , were unsound , and their state was doomed . This was Isaiah's point . The actual commonwealth of the " drunkards " and the " blind , " as he calls them , in Israel and Judah ...
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Page 8661 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 8573 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
Page 8751 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 8328 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Page 8325 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Page 8746 - 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.
Page 8555 - We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, ' that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed...
Page 8347 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Page 8338 - Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and. if we will tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best.
Page 8422 - On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life, yielding to partial and temporary departures from necessity.