Classified Models of Speech Composition: Ninety-five Complete SpeechesJames Milton O'Neill |
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... nature and character , not very extensive , I would hope , but still there is too much evidence of its existence . Such is human nature that some persons lose their abhorrence of crime in their admira- tion of its magnificent ...
... nature and character , not very extensive , I would hope , but still there is too much evidence of its existence . Such is human nature that some persons lose their abhorrence of crime in their admira- tion of its magnificent ...
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... nature were , to the knowledge of the whole privy council , granted by Mr. Fisher himself , who now stands in my presence unaccused and unreproved , but who , if the crown that summon him durst have called him , would have dispersed to ...
... nature were , to the knowledge of the whole privy council , granted by Mr. Fisher himself , who now stands in my presence unaccused and unreproved , but who , if the crown that summon him durst have called him , would have dispersed to ...
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... nature and amount of evidence required to prove the crime was also prescribed , so that prejudice and enmity might have no share in the conviction . And , lastly , the punishment was so limited that the property of the party could not ...
... nature and amount of evidence required to prove the crime was also prescribed , so that prejudice and enmity might have no share in the conviction . And , lastly , the punishment was so limited that the property of the party could not ...
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... nature . If you decide that the attorney general holds in his own hands , or shares with others , the power of life and death over us all , I mean to be very cautious in my intercourse with him ; and I warn you , the judges whom I am ...
... nature . If you decide that the attorney general holds in his own hands , or shares with others , the power of life and death over us all , I mean to be very cautious in my intercourse with him ; and I warn you , the judges whom I am ...
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... nature of the act of the accused . If a person , without such provocation as the law deems sufficient to reduce the ... natural consequence of his act ; that , if the natural consequence of his act was death , he meant to kill , and , if ...
... nature of the act of the accused . If a person , without such provocation as the law deems sufficient to reduce the ... natural consequence of his act ; that , if the natural consequence of his act was death , he meant to kill , and , if ...
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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 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...