Representative British Orations: With Introductions and Explanatory Notes, Nide 2Charles Kendall Adams G.P. Putnam's sons, 1884 |
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Sivu 204 - France, in a few years, described the whole circle of human society. All this was in the order of nature— when every principle of authority and civil discipline, when every principle which enables some men to command and disposes others to obey was extirpated from the mind by atrocious theories, and still more atrocious examples; when every old institution was trampled down with contumely, and every new institution covered in its cradle with blood ; when the principle of property itself, the sheet-anchor...
Sivu 275 - Angel last replied. This having learn'd, thou hast attain'd the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all the ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all Nature's works, Or works of God in Heaven, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world...
Sivu 243 - ... satirist on his tyranny to be convicted and punished as a libeller ; and in this court, almost in sight of the scaffold streaming with the blood...
Sivu 156 - What ! Must the bowels of Great Britain be torn out — her best blood spilled — her treasure wasted — that you may make an experiment? Put yourselves — oh that you would put yourselves in the field of battle, and learn to judge of the sort of horrors that you excite ! In former wars a man might, at least, have some feeling, some interest, that served to balance...
Sivu 275 - A virgin is his mother, but his sire The power of the Most High : he shall ascend The throne hereditary, and bound his reign With earth's wide bounds, his glory with the heavens.
Sivu 274 - Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
Sivu 7 - If, however, the baneful alliance is not already formed, if this ill-omened marriage is not already solemnized, I know a just and lawful impediment, and in the name of the public safety I here forbid the Banns...
Sivu 240 - Better, ten thousand times better, would it be that every press in the world were burnt, that the very use of letters were abolished, that we were returned to the honest ignorance of the rudest times, than that the results of civilisation should be made subservient to the purposes of barbarism, than that literature should...
Sivu 275 - And all the rule, one empire; only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loth To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.