| Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 526 pagine
...the heights of Charleito-rvt shall be more memorable for thy fall, than the Plant of Abraham are fur that of the hero of .Britain. For while he died contending...HARRINGTON he wrote— like CICERO he spoke —like HAMPDEM he lived— and like WOLFB he died. And can we, my countrymen, with indifference behold so... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 514 pagine
...shone even in the moment of death; for, if fame speaks true, in his last agonies he met the insulu of his barbarous foe with his wonted magnanimity,...HARRINGTON he wrote— like CICERO he spoke —like HAMPDEX he lived— and like WOLFE he died. And can we, my countrymen, with indifference behold so... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 518 pagine
...even in the moment of death; for, if f»me speaks true, in his last agonies he met the insults of bis barbarous foe with his wonted magnanimity, and with...HARRINGTON he wrote— like CICERO he spoke —like HAMl'DEN he lived— and like WOLFE he died. And can we, my countrymen, with indifference behold so... | |
| Hugh Francis Russell-Smith - 1914 - 246 pagine
...the hero and martyr of the battle of Bunkers Hill, the panegyrist broke forth into these words : " Like Harrington he wrote — like Cicero he spoke...like Hampden he lived — and like Wolfe he died." 1 The speech in which this passage occujs was long famous in America. Harrington^ playpH his part in... | |
| Edward Craig - 1998 - 896 pagine
...colonies, and among the rebels of 1776. It was said of General Warner, the hero of Bunker Hill, that 'like Harrington he wrote, like Cicero he spoke, like Hampden he lived, like Wolfe he died'. In 1779 it was proposed, albeit ironically, that Massachusetts be renamed Oceana.... | |
| Jason Shaffer - 2007 - 254 pagine
...equally adept at philosophy, oratory, and warfare: "like [Interregnum republican philosopher James] Harrington he wrote, like Cicero he spoke, like Hampden he lived, and like Wolfe he died!"75 Warren, then, serves as both a singularly American patriot martyr and as the most recent embodiment... | |
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