Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867 |
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... organization . But , my friends , I have trespassed too long on your indul- gence . There are solemn exercises before us , in which you are impatient to unite . There are eloquent voices , to which you are anxious to listen . Let me ...
... organization . But , my friends , I have trespassed too long on your indul- gence . There are solemn exercises before us , in which you are impatient to unite . There are eloquent voices , to which you are anxious to listen . Let me ...
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... organized systems of government , but all resting on the original consent of the governed , all appealing to the intelligence and morality of the people for their continued support and maintenance , all relying on the more than ...
... organized systems of government , but all resting on the original consent of the governed , all appealing to the intelligence and morality of the people for their continued support and maintenance , all relying on the more than ...
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... organized ourselves into an Association for the purpose of promoting the prosperity and welfare of this ancient and venerated Institution . We have come together at the prompting of a true filial piety , to concert measures for advan ...
... organized ourselves into an Association for the purpose of promoting the prosperity and welfare of this ancient and venerated Institution . We have come together at the prompting of a true filial piety , to concert measures for advan ...
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... organization of a Board of Agriculture , under the auspices of our own Commonwealth . I think we shall acknowledge , however , that it is of the highest importance , at such a moment , that we should have some correct and exact ideas as ...
... organization of a Board of Agriculture , under the auspices of our own Commonwealth . I think we shall acknowledge , however , that it is of the highest importance , at such a moment , that we should have some correct and exact ideas as ...
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... organization of our National Government . And who can fail to rejoice in the assurance which such a lapse of time suggests and sanctions , that a free , republican , constitutional system is no longer to be considered in the light of an ...
... organization of our National Government . And who can fail to rejoice in the assurance which such a lapse of time suggests and sanctions , that a free , republican , constitutional system is no longer to be considered in the light of an ...
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Popular passages
Page 635 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent, And many an error by the same example Will rush into the state; it cannot be.
Page 71 - And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us?
Page 289 - I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Page 328 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free!
Page 573 - ... his mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 217 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 446 - But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love ; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Page 87 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Page 648 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 280 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.