Mr. Clay said he did not think it expedient, in deciding this question, to go forward five or six years, and make that an obstacle to the passage of a great national measure, which is not to go into operation until after that period.
He represented the country as engaged in a great national cause, attended with great difficulty and with much expense.
He regarded it, however, as constituting, by the variety and magnitude of its relations, a great national subject.
The audiences cheered and cried and let themselves go in the hysterical manner of people wrought up by great national excitements.
It is a sickening thing to realise that in all hours of great national tragedy or terror there will always be people degenerate enough to take advantage of the suffering and ruin about them.
For that little episode of my girlhood, the meeting with those eager and plucky young spirits just before our great national crisis, has always been close to my heart.
But here the question recurs, are these apprehended inconveniences of such a nature as to render it necessary to abandon a great national object, for the accommodation of a few individuals who are affected by them?
The poem is a religious as well as a great national work; but the religious creed which is expressed in it is a composite result of Greek mythology, of Roman sentiment, and of ideas derived from an eclectic philosophy.
These qualities are the foundations of a powerful and orderly State, not the root or the sap by which a great national poetry is nourished[19].
The chief interest of Roman poetry, considered as the work of men of natural genius and cultivated taste, and as the expression of great national ideas or of individual thought and impulse, ceases with the end of the Augustan age.
If the States are to maintain their ground as a great national power, they must agree among themselves to bear the cost of such greatness.
The people generally have, I think, recognized the fact that they will have to put their necks beneath the yoke, as the peoples of other nations have put theirs, and support the weight of a great national debt.
On the 5th the despatch appeared in the second edition of several of the morning papers, and England realized to the fullest extent the bitterness of a great national disappointment.
I plead, as the representative of a great National organization of the women of the land, for the Conservation of true womanliness, for the exalting, for the lifting up in special honor, of the Holy Grail of Womanhood.
I prize my high opportunity to do all that an Executive can do to help a great people to realize a great national ambition; for Conservation is National.
At the call of a bugle the band struck up Hail Columbia, the whole audience keeping time, as at Drury Lane, when God Save The King is played after a great national victory.
It was enough to make you a man of method for life, to see the gunner superintending his subalterns, when preparing the main- deck batteries for a great national salute.
He retained his warlike habits, and in great national crises he headed his own troops in battle.
An avowal has been made that he is the exponent of the views of the President, upon a great national question.
We have a topographical and a hydrographical bureau, yet neither of them has any connection with this great national work.
What we complain of is, that facilities should be given for the multiplication of these denominational schools at the very time that the Government are establishing a great National system.
It is in perfect consistency with such ultramontane ideas that these Irish newspapers uniformly take the side of royal despots in great national struggles, and deny all sympathy to revolutionary leaders except those of Ireland.
I hold it the duty of the Executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditures, and a sparing economy is itself a great national resource.
Among the objects of great national concern I can not omit to press again upon your attention that part of the Constitution which regulates the election of President and Vice-President.
But two elements remained that should, as pointed out by Zajonczek, consolidate and ensure a great national Rising: universal detestation of the Russian and limitless confidence in the chosen national leader.
You are doubtless acquainted well enough with the principal events ofgreat national moment of recent years in South Africa.
It was the first time in history that the Colonies of Great Britain had come to the Mother Country to consult on great National questions.
He could not conceive that anything could be more desirable than to take the evidence of distinguished representative men on such a great National question.
On the hill back of the village is a great national cemetery, at the dedication of which Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg address.
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