The Principles of Grammar: Being a Compendious Treatise on the Languages, English, Latin, Greek, German, Spanish and French ...

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Page 40 - That we would do, We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.
Page 75 - Massachusetts — she needs none. There she is — behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history: the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill — and there they will remain forever.
Page 75 - Independence, now lie mingled with the soil of every state from New England to Georgia; and there they will lie forever. And, sir, where American liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there It still lives, in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit.
Page 75 - If discord and disunion shall wound it, if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it, if folly and madness, if uneasiness under salutary and necessary restraint, shall succeed in separating it from that Union, by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever...
Page 75 - Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.
Page 79 - I could have most anxiously wished to avoid ; but it was not to be shunned. We have not sought this controversy ; it has met us, and been forced upon us. In my judgment, the law has been disregarded, and the Constitution transgressed ; the fortress of liberty has been assaulted, and circumstances have placed the Senate in the breach ; and, although we may perish in it, I know we shall not fly from it. But I am fearless of consequences. We shall hold on, Sir, and hold out, till the people themselves...
Page 77 - ... of the feudal system. To this end, all that could be gained from the imprudence, snatched from the weakness, or wrung from the necessities of crowned heads, has been carefully gathered up, secured, and hoarded, as the rich treasures, the very jewels of liberty.
Page 81 - О death, where is thy sting? О grave, where is thy victory ? The sting of death is sin ; and the strength of sin is the Law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 77 - And now, Sir, who is he, so ignorant of the history of liberty, at home and abroad ; who is he, yet dwelling, in his contemplations, among the principles and dogmas of the Middle Ages ; who is he, from whose bosom all original infusion of American spirit has become so entirely evaporated and exhaled...
Page 264 - Je fus Tu fus Il fut Nous fûmes Vous fûtes Ils furent Futur Je serai Tu...

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