The Intermediate Standard Speaker: Containing Pieces for Declamation in Schools, Colleges, Etc. : Introductory, Or Supplementary, to The Standard Speaker |
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... hold fast to our integ- rity , our very continence will prove that there is still some ster- ling virtue left . For never was there so much reason for the prayer , " Deliver us from temptation . " After all our conquests , the most ...
... hold fast to our integ- rity , our very continence will prove that there is still some ster- ling virtue left . For never was there so much reason for the prayer , " Deliver us from temptation . " After all our conquests , the most ...
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... hold , sir , a maxim on this matter which personally I have felt of ex- ceeding consequence . It is time the truth had gone forth , to be held as a maxim for evermore , THAT IN PROPORTION TO THE DEPTH of one's faith , IS THE ABSENCE OF ...
... hold , sir , a maxim on this matter which personally I have felt of ex- ceeding consequence . It is time the truth had gone forth , to be held as a maxim for evermore , THAT IN PROPORTION TO THE DEPTH of one's faith , IS THE ABSENCE OF ...
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... holds forth to mankind ! But with what an accession of beauty she invites us to the study of her charms , while she recounts the acts and the heroism of our own ancestry ! Let the energies of our country become extinct ; let her armies ...
... holds forth to mankind ! But with what an accession of beauty she invites us to the study of her charms , while she recounts the acts and the heroism of our own ancestry ! Let the energies of our country become extinct ; let her armies ...
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... hold the blessings trans- mitted from our fathers in just estimation ; some proof of our attachment to the cause of good government , and of civil and religious liberty ; some proof of a sincere and ardent desire to promote every thing ...
... hold the blessings trans- mitted from our fathers in just estimation ; some proof of our attachment to the cause of good government , and of civil and religious liberty ; some proof of a sincere and ardent desire to promote every thing ...
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... holds her solitary vigil , waiting , yet dreading his return . that will only wring from her by his unkindness tears even more scalding than those she sheds over his transgression . To fling a deeper gloom across the present , memory ...
... holds her solitary vigil , waiting , yet dreading his return . that will only wring from her by his unkindness tears even more scalding than those she sheds over his transgression . To fling a deeper gloom across the present , memory ...
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Page 70 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 330 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 137 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do.
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Page 273 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
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Page 20 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending: if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us! They tell us, sir,...