| Oliver Ernesto Branch - Readers - 1878 - 278 pages
...to sincere devotion to liberty and the country ; if I see an uncommon endowment of heaven, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the South ; and if, moved by local prejudice, or gnugrened by State jealousy, I abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and just fame, may... | |
| American literature - 1880 - 208 pages
...liberty and the country; or if I see an uncommon endowment of heaven; if I see extraordinary capacity or virtue in any son of the South; and if, moved by local...gangrened by state jealousy, I get up here to abate a tithe of a hair from his just character and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1880 - 288 pages
...sifted his phraseology. 21. The fame of the elder Pitt has been overshadowed by that of the son. 22. If, gangrened by state jealousy, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. 23. Inflections are words that have lost their... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1880 - 286 pages
...capacity in any son of the South, and if, gangrened by state jealousy or moved by local prejudice, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his character and just fame. Direction. — Bring in good climaxes of all the kinds spoken of — as many... | |
| John Nichol - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...sincere devotion to liberty and the country ; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of heaven, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the...a hair from his just character and just fame, may iny tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ! " Sir, let me recur to pleasing recollections ; let me... | |
| Robert McLean Cumnock - Readers - 1882 - 420 pages
...sincere devotion to liberty and the country; or if I see an uncommon endowment of heaven, — if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the...by local prejudice or gangrened by State jealousy, 1 get up here to abate the tithe ofa hair from his just character and just fame, — may my tongue... | |
| Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1883 - 518 pages
...must fight—I repeat it, we must fight! 2. If I see an uncommon endowment of heaven; if I perceive extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the...gangrened by state jealousy, I get up here to abate a tithe of hair from his just character and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.... | |
| Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1883 - 518 pages
...must fight — I repeat it, we must fight! 2. If I see an uncommon endowment of heaven; if I perceive extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the...by local prejudice or gangrened by state jealousy, 1 get up here to abate a tithe of hair from his just character and just fame, may my tongue cleave... | |
| Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1857 - 494 pages
...sincere devotion to liberty and the country ; or, if I see an Uncommon endowment of heaven — if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the South — and if, moved by local prejudices, or gangrened by state jealousy, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just... | |
| Walter K. Fobes - Recitations - 1885 - 200 pages
...American talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion to liberty and the country; or, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the...Sir, let me recur to pleasing recollections, let me remind you that in early times no States cherished greater harmony both of principle and feeling than... | |
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