The United States Speaker: A Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution; Consisting of Prose, Poetry and Dialogue: Drawn Chiefly from the Most Approved Writers of Great Britain and America ... |
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... breathing to us out of every page of our country's history , in the native eloquence of our mother tongue ; -that the colonial and provin- cial councils of America exhibit to us models of the spirits and character which gave Greece and ...
... breathing to us out of every page of our country's history , in the native eloquence of our mother tongue ; -that the colonial and provin- cial councils of America exhibit to us models of the spirits and character which gave Greece and ...
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... breath , by way of crowning the climax of vanity , bid the magnificent fire - ball to descend from its ex- alted and appropriate region , and perform its splendid tour along the surface of the earth ? Talents , which are before the ...
... breath , by way of crowning the climax of vanity , bid the magnificent fire - ball to descend from its ex- alted and appropriate region , and perform its splendid tour along the surface of the earth ? Talents , which are before the ...
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... breath of their king may kindle into such fury , that the blood of all England cannot extinguish it . 52 . DECISIVE INTEGRITY . -Wirt . The man who is so conscious of the rectitude of his inten- tions , as to be willing to open his ...
... breath of their king may kindle into such fury , that the blood of all England cannot extinguish it . 52 . DECISIVE INTEGRITY . -Wirt . The man who is so conscious of the rectitude of his inten- tions , as to be willing to open his ...
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... breath of war , and left " without agriculture , without commerce , and without arts : " the traces of a desolating foe are marked , not only on the site of lamented Scio , on the ramparts of Ipsara , Missolonghi , and the Acropolis ...
... breath of war , and left " without agriculture , without commerce , and without arts : " the traces of a desolating foe are marked , not only on the site of lamented Scio , on the ramparts of Ipsara , Missolonghi , and the Acropolis ...
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... breath of spring : but , Oh God , this paradise - this heaven is a hell to me ! —All is happiness around me , -all in the sweet spirit of peace ; the world is one family , but its father there above is not my father ! I am an outcast ...
... breath of spring : but , Oh God , this paradise - this heaven is a hell to me ! —All is happiness around me , -all in the sweet spirit of peace ; the world is one family , but its father there above is not my father ! I am an outcast ...
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