Orations and After-dinner Speeches of Chauncey M. DepewCassell Publishing Company, 1896 - 537 pages |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 37 | |
| 64 | |
| 82 | |
| 91 | |
| 99 | |
| 125 | |
| 140 | |
| 319 | |
| 330 | |
| 337 | |
| 355 | |
| 361 | |
| 367 | |
| 386 | |
| 400 | |
| 159 | |
| 166 | |
| 175 | |
| 184 | |
| 199 | |
| 220 | |
| 231 | |
| 266 | |
| 272 | |
| 283 | |
| 293 | |
| 301 | |
| 309 | |
| 412 | |
| 421 | |
| 437 | |
| 449 | |
| 466 | |
| 477 | |
| 494 | |
| 504 | |
| 511 | |
| 518 | |
| 524 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alexander Hamilton ambition Ameri American André army battle British carried celebrate century citizens civil colonies command commerce common Confederation Congress Constitution Continental Army Continental Congress Convention courage death Declaration Declaration of Independence defeat Dutch duty election eloquence Empire enemy England equal Europe faith force fortune France freedom Garfield gave genius gentlemen George Clinton Gouverneur Morris Governor grand Hamilton Home Rule honor hope hundred independence industrial inspired John Jay King labor Lafayette land liberty lives ment mighty millions never opportunity party passions patriotism peace Peekskill peril political President principles prosperity Puritan Republic Reuben E Revolution secure Senate sentiment slavery soldier speech spirit statesmen success thousand tion to-day to-night triumph Union United United States Senator victory Washington Washington Irving wealth York young
Popular passages
Page 56 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Page 105 - 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 257 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 113 - This Convention therefore, in the name and by the authority of the good people of this State, doth ORDAIN, DETERMINE and DECLARE, that no authority shall on any pretence whatever be exercised over the people or members of this State, but such as shall be derived from and granted by them.
Page 20 - I tell you, (with the world it would obtain little credit,) that my movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit, who is going to the place of his execution ; so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life...
Page 48 - Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws.
Page 61 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 15 - It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair : the event is in the hand of God.
Page 21 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Page 117 - State, ordain, determine and declare, that the free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever hereafter be allowed within this State to all mankind; provided that the liberty of conscience hereby granted shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this State.