Classified Models of Speech Composition: Ninety-five Complete SpeechesJames Milton O'Neill |
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... followed the perpetrator to the chamber , what could he have done ? This was to be a murder by stealth . It was to be a secret assassination . It was not their purpose to have an open combat ; they were to approach their victim unawares ...
... followed the perpetrator to the chamber , what could he have done ? This was to be a murder by stealth . It was to be a secret assassination . It was not their purpose to have an open combat ; they were to approach their victim unawares ...
Page 94
... followed him in his flight and torn him to atoms . It was again trampled down by the Norman conquerors ; but the evils resulting from the want of it united all classes in the effort which compelled King John to restore it by the Great ...
... followed him in his flight and torn him to atoms . It was again trampled down by the Norman conquerors ; but the evils resulting from the want of it united all classes in the effort which compelled King John to restore it by the Great ...
Page 108
... followed by instant execution . He let loose the Præ- torian guards upon men , women and children , to drown , butcher and burn them . Herod saw fit , for good political reasons , closely affecting the permanence of his reign in Judea ...
... followed by instant execution . He let loose the Præ- torian guards upon men , women and children , to drown , butcher and burn them . Herod saw fit , for good political reasons , closely affecting the permanence of his reign in Judea ...
Page 118
... followed by a very profound sleep , lasting six or eight hours , from which the patient awakes sane . " Dr. Stedman , who , from his care of the marine hospital at Chelsea , and of the city hospital at South Boston , has had great ...
... followed by a very profound sleep , lasting six or eight hours , from which the patient awakes sane . " Dr. Stedman , who , from his care of the marine hospital at Chelsea , and of the city hospital at South Boston , has had great ...
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... followed here- after in all future cases of the like nature ; and this determined me as to the manner of wording the question , " How far the defendant night , in the present case , be allowed to plead his disability in bar of the ...
... followed here- after in all future cases of the like nature ; and this determined me as to the manner of wording the question , " How far the defendant night , in the present case , be allowed to plead his disability in bar of the ...
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Page 400 - A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political Independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
Page 511 - In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Page 636 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 485 - The Almighty has his own purposes. ' Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
Page 690 - My Friends: No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot...
Page 357 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 5 - It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder — no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe!
Page 485 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those Divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 153 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 580 - Think of him as a ragged, half-starved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled by want and wounds; having fought to exhaustion, he surrenders his gun, wrings the hands of his comrades in silence, and, lifting his tear-stained and pallid face for the last time to the graves that dot the old Virginia hills, pulls his gray cap over his brow and begins the slow and painful journey. What does he find — let me ask you, who went to your homes eager to find in the welcome you had justly earned, full payment for four...