Washington, Webster and Lincoln: Selections for the College Entrance English RequirementsJoseph Villiers Denney Scott, Foresman, 1910 - 211 strani |
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WASHINGTON WEBSTER & LINCOLN S George 1732-1799 Washington,Joseph Villiers 1862-1935 Denney, Ed,Daniel 1782-1852 Webster Predogled ni na voljo - 2016 |
WASHINGTON WEBSTER & LINCOLN S George 1732-1799 Washington,Daniel 1782-1852 Webster Predogled ni na voljo - 2016 |
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Abraham Baldwin ABRAHAM LINCOLN amendment American appeal argument Aristotle audience better Bunker Hill Bunker Hill Monument cause character Congress declare discourse duty effect ernment existing expository addresses fact Farewell Address fathers who framed favor Federal authority Federal Government Federal Territories feeling forbade the Federal foreign framed the government give Government to control gunpowder plot Harper's Ferry honorable and learned Horace Greeley human idea INDEPENDENCE HALL influence interest introduction learned friend liberty literary live Louisiana Macaulay ment mind monopoly Monument narration nation natural object occasion opinion oratory original Constitution party patriotism peace political popular present principle prohibit slavery proof and refutation proper division question reason Republican Revolution sentiment slave insurrection slavery in Federal South speak speaker speech spirit stitution things thirty-nine THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thought tion true voted Washington Webster whole words wrong
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Stran 44 - The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.
Stran 201 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Stran 128 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Stran 37 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Stran 159 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Stran 132 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts ; but, beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Stran 39 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our union, it occurs as matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties, by geographical discriminations — Northern and Southern; Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts....
Stran 50 - I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. " Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
Stran 42 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
Stran 51 - There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.