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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... force , and earnestness , are the qualities which produce conviction . True eloquence , inuced , does not consist in speech . It cannot be brought from far . Labor and learning may toil for it , but they will toil in vain . Words and ...
... force , and earnestness , are the qualities which produce conviction . True eloquence , inuced , does not consist in speech . It cannot be brought from far . Labor and learning may toil for it , but they will toil in vain . Words and ...
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... force which our enemy can send against us . Besides . sir , we shall not fight our battles alone . There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations ; and who will rais up friends to fight our battles for us . The battle ...
... force which our enemy can send against us . Besides . sir , we shall not fight our battles alone . There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations ; and who will rais up friends to fight our battles for us . The battle ...
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... force of volition , he has probably few superiors . But survey the list of heroes , who crowned themselves with laurels during the last war , and ask yourselves if some of them too did not perform splendid achievements , worthy of ...
... force of volition , he has probably few superiors . But survey the list of heroes , who crowned themselves with laurels during the last war , and ask yourselves if some of them too did not perform splendid achievements , worthy of ...
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... force them to disre- gard its injunctions , in order to elude its oppressions . It was his perfect conviction , that there was not a virtuous man through- out the union , who would now think it criminal to smuggle into the country every ...
... force them to disre- gard its injunctions , in order to elude its oppressions . It was his perfect conviction , that there was not a virtuous man through- out the union , who would now think it criminal to smuggle into the country every ...
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... force of long - rooted habits and native love of order and peace . Above all , their blood calls to us from the soil which we tread ; it beats in our veins ; it cries to us not merely in the thrilling words of one of the first victims ...
... force of long - rooted habits and native love of order and peace . Above all , their blood calls to us from the soil which we tread ; it beats in our veins ; it cries to us not merely in the thrilling words of one of the first victims ...
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