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... duty and moral feeling , I hardly know what should bear with stronger obli- gation on a liberal and enlightened mind ... duties which that relation , and the present occasion , impose upon us . We have come to this Rock , to record here ...
... duty and moral feeling , I hardly know what should bear with stronger obli- gation on a liberal and enlightened mind ... duties which that relation , and the present occasion , impose upon us . We have come to this Rock , to record here ...
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... duty , is able to look the sternest despotism in the face , and with means apparently most inad- equate , to shake principalities and powers . There is a boldness , a spirit of daring , in religious reformers , not to be measured by the ...
... duty , is able to look the sternest despotism in the face , and with means apparently most inad- equate , to shake principalities and powers . There is a boldness , a spirit of daring , in religious reformers , not to be measured by the ...
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... duty which they impose upon us . We hold these institutions of government , religion , and learning , to be transmitted , as well as en- joyed . We are in the line of conveyance , through which whatever has been obtained by the spirit ...
... duty which they impose upon us . We hold these institutions of government , religion , and learning , to be transmitted , as well as en- joyed . We are in the line of conveyance , through which whatever has been obtained by the spirit ...
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... duty than to maintain and support it in the full exercise of all its just con- stitutional powers . The cause of science and literature also imposes upon us an im- portant and delicate trust . The wealth and population of the coun- try ...
... duty than to maintain and support it in the full exercise of all its just con- stitutional powers . The cause of science and literature also imposes upon us an im- portant and delicate trust . The wealth and population of the coun- try ...
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... that the popular form is practicable , and that with wisdom and knowledge men may govern themselves ; and the duty incumbent on us is , to preserve the consistency of this cheering example , and take care that nothing may weaken 69.
... that the popular form is practicable , and that with wisdom and knowledge men may govern themselves ; and the duty incumbent on us is , to preserve the consistency of this cheering example , and take care that nothing may weaken 69.
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Page 80 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Page 60 - VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed!
Page 87 - They will celebrate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires, and illuminations. On its annual return they will shed tears, — copious, gushing tears ; not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy.
Page 60 - You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and successful repulse; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance; a thousand bosoms freely and fearlessly bared in an instant to whatever of terror there may be in war and death ; — all these you have witnessed, but you witness them no more. All is...
Page 425 - I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Page 451 - The assassin enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon ; he winds up the ascent of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber.
Page 406 - When I shall be found, sir, in my place here in the Senate or elsewhere to sneer at public merit because it happens to spring up beyond the little limits of my own State or neighborhood ; when I refuse, for any such cause or for any cause, the homage due to American talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion...
Page 59 - We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object...
Page 128 - By the law of the land, is most clearly intended, the general law; a law, which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 407 - ... feeling, than Massachusetts and South Carolina. Would to God that harmony might again return ! Shoulder to shoulder they went through the Revolution ; hand in hand they stood round the administration of Washington, and felt his own great arm lean on them for support. Unkind feeling, if it exist, alienation and distrust, are the growth, unnatural to such soils, of false principles since sown. They are weeds, the seeds of which that same great arm never scattered. Mr. President, I shall enter on...