The Patriotic Speaker: Consisting of Specimens of Modern Eloquence, Together with Poetical Extracts Adapted for Recitation, and Dramatic Pieces for Exhibitions |
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The Patriotic Speaker: Consisting of Specimens of Modern Eloquence, Together ... Robert Raikes Raymond No preview available - 2016 |
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Common terms and phrases
American arms army battle behold beneath blessings blood bosom brave Brutus Cæsar Capt cause citizen civil Constitution Damon dare dead death Dingbatter Dion Dionysius Dodd door Dred Scott duty earth eyes fathers fear feel flag forever freedom friends give glorious glory Government Grif hand heard heart heaven honor hope human Joseph Holt king king of Dahomey land liberty live look Lord Lord Lovell ment mighty Mondamin nation never niggers noble North o'er Owen Lovejoy party patriotism peace political principles Procles Pyth Pythias rebellion Republic Reverdy Johnson Rome secession Senator shout slave slavery soldier soul South South Carolina Southern speak spirit stand stars stood sword tears tell Territories thee things Thomas A. R. Nelson Thor thou thousand tion traitors Union United voice waves word wrong
Popular passages
Page 149 - of the wave and not the rock; Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale I In spite of rock and tempest roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea 1 Our hearts, our hopes are all with thee! Our hearts,
Page 414 - Spite of rock and tempest roar, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea: Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee. Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Are all with thee—are all with thee. Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,
Page 127 - of a government built, upon it; when the "storm came and the wind blew, it fell." Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man. That slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition.
Page 257 - Pantaloon, with spectacles on nose, and pouch on side; his youthful hose well saved, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big, manly voice, turning again to childish treble, pipes and whistles in the sound. Last scene of all, that ends this strange, eventful history, is—second childishness and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste,—sans
Page 335 - right, He glanced; the old flag met his sight. " Halt!"—the dust-brown ranks stood fast* " Fire!"—out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick as it fell from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the
Page 422 - our children stop!" He's forced to let the piping drop, When, lo, as they reached the mountain's side, A wondrous portal opened wide, As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed ; And the piper advanced and the children followed ; And when all were in to the very last, The door in the mountain side shut fast.
Page 83 - by menaces of destruction to the government or of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that Right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty, as we
Page 335 - Over the mountains winding down, Horse and foot, into Frederick town. Forty flags with their silver stars, Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind; the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one. Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then, Bowed with her fourscore years and ten; Bravest
Page 252 - Thou first and chief, sole sovereign of the vale ! 0, struggling with the darkness all the night, and visited all night by troops of stars, or when they climb the sky, or when they sink 1 Companion of the morning star at dawn, thyself
Page 210 - Ye have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine." That is the whole story. This is the settlement day of God Almighty for the unparalleled