 | Alexander Magnus Drummond - Elocution - 1925 - 322 pages
...: 1"A Poet's Prosody," The Freeman, IV (1921-22), 499. 1 Handbook of Poetics, Boston, 1885, p. 134. It reconciles superiority of power with the feelings...confidence on the foundations of affection and gratitude. (Chatham, on Removing Troops from Boston.) The freeholders of England are reduced to a condition baser... | |
 | William Backus Guitteau, Hanson Hart Webster - United States - 1926 - 240 pages
...concord, to peace and happiness: for that is your true dignity, to act with prudence and justice. That you should first concede is obvious, from sound and rational...confidence on the foundations of affection and gratitude. . . . "Every motive, therefore, of justice and of policy, of dignity and of prudence, urges you to... | |
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... to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed. Avoid, then, this humiliating, disgraceful necessity. With a dignity becoming your exalted situation, make the first advances to concord, to peace, and happiness; for that is your true dignity,... 
