The Life of Charles Sumner: With Choice Specimens of His Eloquence, a Delineation of His Oratorical Character and His Great Speech on KansasDayton and Burdick, 1856 - Всего страниц: 329 |
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... tyranny more oppressive than any in the annals of the world . As those standing on the mountain - tops first dis- cern the coming beams of morning , let us , from the vantage - ground of liberal institutions , first recognize the ...
... tyranny more oppressive than any in the annals of the world . As those standing on the mountain - tops first dis- cern the coming beams of morning , let us , from the vantage - ground of liberal institutions , first recognize the ...
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... tyranny or lost by neglect . It is immortal , as the soul from which it proceeds . This alone renders all relapse into barbarism impossible , while it af- fords an unquestionable distinction between An- cient and Modern Times . The ...
... tyranny or lost by neglect . It is immortal , as the soul from which it proceeds . This alone renders all relapse into barbarism impossible , while it af- fords an unquestionable distinction between An- cient and Modern Times . The ...
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... tyranny , differing little in hardship and audacity from that which sustained the Bas- tile of France - I mean the Slave Power of the United States . Let not people start at this simili- tude . I intend no unkindness to individual slave ...
... tyranny , differing little in hardship and audacity from that which sustained the Bas- tile of France - I mean the Slave Power of the United States . Let not people start at this simili- tude . I intend no unkindness to individual slave ...
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... tyranny hardly less hateful than that which sustained the Bastile ? " This combination is unknown to the Constitu- tion ; nay , it exists in defiance of the spirit of that instrument , and of the recorded opinions of its founders . The ...
... tyranny hardly less hateful than that which sustained the Bastile ? " This combination is unknown to the Constitu- tion ; nay , it exists in defiance of the spirit of that instrument , and of the recorded opinions of its founders . The ...
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... tyranny of the Stamp Act and the Tea Tax . I would not exaggerate ; I wish to keep within bounds ; but I think no person can doubt that the condemnation now affixed to all these transactions , and to their authors , must be the lot ...
... tyranny of the Stamp Act and the Tea Tax . I would not exaggerate ; I wish to keep within bounds ; but I think no person can doubt that the condemnation now affixed to all these transactions , and to their authors , must be the lot ...
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Стр. 289 - For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe ' return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. 'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers...
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Стр. 170 - The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight—I mean the harlot. Slavery.
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Стр. 220 - Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, And kennel there, yet there still barked and howled Within unseen.