Orators of modern EuropeGuy Carleton Lee G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900 - Orators |
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Page 228 - Europe ; an immense •future is before you ; you -lift your eyes to the loveliest heaven, and around you smiles the loveliest land in Europe ; you are encircled by the Alps and the sea, boundaries traced out by the finger of God for a people of giants — you are bound to be such, or nothing.
Page 225 - We are here below to labor fraternally to build up the unity of the human family, so that the day may come when it shall represent a single sheepfold with a single shepherd, — the spirit of God, the Law. To aid our search after truth, God has given to us tradition and the voice of our own conscience.
Page 223 - The idea which they worshipped, young men, does not as yet shine forth in its full purity and integrity upon your banner. The sublime programme which they, dying, bequeathed to the rising Italian generation, is yours ; but mutilated, broken up into fragments by the false doctrines, which, elsewhere overthrown, have taken refuge amongst us.
Page 222 - WHEN I was commissioned by you, young men, to proffer in this temple a few words consecrated to the memory of the brothers Bandiera, and their fellow-martyrs at Cosenza, I thought that some...
Page 236 - What are the circumstances ? A man, a convict, a sentenced wretch, is dragged, on a certain morning, to one of our public squares. There he finds the scaffold ! He shudders, he struggles, he refuses to die. He is young yet — only twenty-nine. Ah! I know what you will say, — " He is a murderer !
Page 230 - And love, young men, love and venerate the ideal. The ideal is the Word of God. High above every country, high above humanity, is the country of the spirit, the city of the soul, in which all are brethren who believe in the inviolability of thought and in the dignity of our immortal soul; and the baptism of this fraternity is martyrdom.
Page 228 - Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart blushing whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you, that by striving to perfect yourselves therein, you may prepare to ascend to him. It is your name, your glory, your sign among the people. Give to it your thoughts, your counsels, your blood.
Page 225 - We are placed here below, not for the capricious exercise of our own individual faculties, — our faculties and liberty are the means, not the end, — not to work out our own happiness upon earth; happiness can only be reached elsewhere, and there God works for us; but to consecrate our existence to the discovery of a portion of the Divine law; to practice it as far as our individual circumstances and powers allow, and to diffuse the knowledge and love of it among our brethren.
Page 159 - I bid you farewell. During the twenty years that we have acted together, I have been satisfied with you. I have always found you in the path of glory. All the powers of Europe have armed against me. A part of my generals have betrayed their duty: France itself has betrayed it.
Page 226 - The family, the city, the fatherland, and humanity are but different spheres in which to exercise our activity and our power of sacrifice towards this great aim. God watches from above the inevitable progress of humanity, and from time to time he raises up the great in genius, in love, in thought, or in action, as priests of his truth, and guides to the multitude on their way.