Word: treasons
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...semi-civilized congressmen in the old days whose deliverances in the Capitol were often grotesque and amusing - speech run mad and descending into oblivion in a very whirlwind of sound. Diseased oratory should give place to orators duly taught by our colleges, which exist to teach uses. It is treason to the republic to send untrained orators into the forum, since the will of many crystallized into laws and oratory is a supreme force to shape the crystals. An unreasoning and ultra-conservative distrust of any ability in any to find or to teach any adequate system of oratory...
...uncivilized. "Simple crimes like murder and theft," when once proved were quickly dealt with. There was a brief period of a wide-spread, well organized society, yet it did not last, for it was not founded on moral instinct which is a necessary foundation of all stable order. The treason of carelessness was the greatest sin of the early Californian, and for it he was obliged to severely atone...
...before an audience of about 200 ladies and gentlemen. The programme was as follows: L. Litchfield, '85, "Rufus Choate," by Wendell Phillips. T. H. Root, '85, "Wreck of the Arctic," by H. W. Beecher. E. T. Sanford, '85, "Enmity towards Great Britain," by Rufus Choate. J. W. Richardson, '86, "Treason of Slavery," by Carl Schurz. D. Kelleher, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," by H. W. Longfellow. I. Dickerman, '86, "Sectional Services in the late War," by Caleb Cushing. E. Stevens, '86, "White Murder Trial," by Webster. T. Rogers, "Aux Haliens," by Owen Meredith. Mr. H. D. Jones, "Dr. Marigold...
...right and wrong, of the nature of sin. We sometimes feel that we have thoughts and desires which are profoundly shameful; we have moments and seasons in which we feel very wretched and guilty. There is an anarchy in our souls which seems somehow to accuse us of treason and rebellion. But what does all this become in the scheme of fatalism? A delusion, a disease. Guilt cannot slip in through the network of necessary causation. If my ancestors were vicious, if my bringing up was bad, if my temptations were strong, why should I up-braid myself...
...London dynamite conspirators were indicted for treason-felony yesterday...