Classified Models of Speech Composition: Ninety-five Complete SpeechesJames Milton O'Neill |
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... respect for my own character , to attempt either ; and were I to make such attempt , I am sure that in this court nothing can be carried against the law , and that gentlemen intelligent and just as you are , are not , by any power , to ...
... respect for my own character , to attempt either ; and were I to make such attempt , I am sure that in this court nothing can be carried against the law , and that gentlemen intelligent and just as you are , are not , by any power , to ...
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... respecting this most extraordinary murder . It has seemed to be a duty incumbent on me , as on every other citizen ... respects it has hardly a precedent anywhere ; certainly none in our New England his- tory . This bloody drama ...
... respecting this most extraordinary murder . It has seemed to be a duty incumbent on me , as on every other citizen ... respects it has hardly a precedent anywhere ; certainly none in our New England his- tory . This bloody drama ...
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... respect , Palmer's testimony is singularly confirmed . If it were false , his ingenuity could not furnish us such clear exposition of strange appearing circumstances . Some truth not before known can alone do that . When we look back ...
... respect , Palmer's testimony is singularly confirmed . If it were false , his ingenuity could not furnish us such clear exposition of strange appearing circumstances . Some truth not before known can alone do that . When we look back ...
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... respecting it ? Have you ever read or known of folly equal to this ? Can you conceive of crime more odious and abominable ? Merely to explain the apparent mysteries of the letter from Palmer , they excite the basest suspicions against a ...
... respecting it ? Have you ever read or known of folly equal to this ? Can you conceive of crime more odious and abominable ? Merely to explain the apparent mysteries of the letter from Palmer , they excite the basest suspicions against a ...
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... respect . For intelligence , for consistency , for accuracy , for caution , for candor , never did witness acquit himself better , or stand fairer . In all that he did as a man , and all he has said as a witness , he has shown himself ...
... respect . For intelligence , for consistency , for accuracy , for caution , for candor , never did witness acquit himself better , or stand fairer . In all that he did as a man , and all he has said as a witness , he has shown himself ...
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American assembly authority believe Brown street called cause Church of England civil colonies common Congress Constitution convention court crime crown declared defendant doctrine Duluth duty England evidence fact favor Federal Federal Territories feel force give guilty hand Hartford Convention heart honorable gentleman honorable Member House of Commons Ireland Irish judge jury justice Knapp land League of Nations learned friend legislature liberty live Lord George Lord George Gordon means measure ment mind murder nation nature never noble O'Connell object opinion Parliament party peace persons political present President principle prisoner protection prove punishment purpose question reason rebellion repeal Republican Republican party resolution Senate slavery slaves South Carolina speech spirit statute tariff tariff of 1816 things thought tion toleration act trade trial true truth Union votes whole words
Popular passages
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 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 - 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 481 - Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.
Page 483 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will...
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 481 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 154 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Page 197 - I call upon the honor of your Lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
Page 153 - But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations.