The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 2F. P. Kaiser, 1901 |
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Page 410
... fact that Benton's influence survives the strug- gle over slavery and the Civil War to a much greater extent than does that of any other statesman of his time , Clay only excepted . As " Old Bullion , " and the stalwart advocate of a ...
... fact that Benton's influence survives the strug- gle over slavery and the Civil War to a much greater extent than does that of any other statesman of his time , Clay only excepted . As " Old Bullion , " and the stalwart advocate of a ...
Page 415
... facts , and to ask themselves if these calamitous prognostications have been verified by events . Have we peace , or war , with foreign nations ? Certainly , we have peace ! peace with all the world ! peace with all its benign and ...
... facts , and to ask themselves if these calamitous prognostications have been verified by events . Have we peace , or war , with foreign nations ? Certainly , we have peace ! peace with all the world ! peace with all its benign and ...
Page 418
... fact itself , that a national bank is not " necessary " to the fiscal operations of the Federal government , and in that demonstration he has upset the argument of General Hamilton , and the decision of the Supreme Court of the United ...
... fact itself , that a national bank is not " necessary " to the fiscal operations of the Federal government , and in that demonstration he has upset the argument of General Hamilton , and the decision of the Supreme Court of the United ...
Page 437
... fact that there was no necessity for its existence there . Cast your recol- lection back to the period when the Constitution was adopted – consider what were the objects upon which this power to organ- ize territorial governments could ...
... fact that there was no necessity for its existence there . Cast your recol- lection back to the period when the Constitution was adopted – consider what were the objects upon which this power to organ- ize territorial governments could ...
Page 444
... facts which interest private fortunes in such degree may be said to be public facts , and their free publication should be authorized . With this view I present the amendment to make such officials subject to the Press censures ...
... facts which interest private fortunes in such degree may be said to be public facts , and their free publication should be authorized . With this view I present the amendment to make such officials subject to the Press censures ...
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Page 811 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 554 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Page 713 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 547 - And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. From henceforth let no man trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
Page 520 - The Congress, the Executive, and the court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 805 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Curdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Page 710 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Page 734 - ... mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay'. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs.
Page 711 - If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven ; whereof I Paul am made a minister...
Page 734 - Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.