The Clay Code, or Text-Book of Eloquence: A Collection of Axioms, Apothegms, Sentiments, and Remarkable Passages on Liberty, Government, Political ... Speeches of Henry Clay (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Henry Clay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 026794912X ISBN 13: 9780267949120

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Clay Code, or Text-Book of Eloquence: A Collection of Axioms, Apothegms, Sentiments, and Remarkable Passages on Liberty, Government, Political Morality and National Honor; Gathered From the Public Speeches of Henry Clay

His most ardent prayers at the shrine of his tutelary goddess, liberty, are for his own country, his own altars, his own home! But after that, he pours forth an ardent aspiration for universai. Freedom; and the strain of his fervent and impassioned eloquence comprehends, in the circle Of an enlarged benevolence, the inhabitants of every, the nearest and most distant lands; or (as he himself expresses it) The liberty and happiness of the whole human family.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 026794912X
• ISBN 13: 9780267949120
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 158