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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... Lord and Savior 1824 , while all European Christendom beheld with cold and unfeeling indifference , the unexampled wrongs and inex- pressible misery of Christian Greece , a proposition was made in the congress of the United States ...
... Lord and Savior 1824 , while all European Christendom beheld with cold and unfeeling indifference , the unexampled wrongs and inex- pressible misery of Christian Greece , a proposition was made in the congress of the United States ...
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... lords , and commons , are but the sport of his fury . Were he a member of this house , what might not be expected from his knowledge , his firmness , and integrity ? He would be easily known by his contempt of all danger , by his ...
... lords , and commons , are but the sport of his fury . Were he a member of this house , what might not be expected from his knowledge , his firmness , and integrity ? He would be easily known by his contempt of all danger , by his ...
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... lord tells us , therefore we ought to tax America . This is the profound logic which comprises the whole chain of his reasoning . Not inferior to this was the wisdom of him who resolved to shear the wolf . What , shear a wolf ! Have you ...
... lord tells us , therefore we ought to tax America . This is the profound logic which comprises the whole chain of his reasoning . Not inferior to this was the wisdom of him who resolved to shear the wolf . What , shear a wolf ! Have you ...
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... Lord help you , sir ! they are not angry with one another : they have now no cause of quarrel ; but their country thinks that there should be a pause . All that you see , sir , is nothing like fighting - there is no harm , nor- cruelty ...
... Lord help you , sir ! they are not angry with one another : they have now no cause of quarrel ; but their country thinks that there should be a pause . All that you see , sir , is nothing like fighting - there is no harm , nor- cruelty ...
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... lord , as arrived at the summit of worldly greatness : let us suppose that all your plans of ava- rice and ambition are accomplished , and your most sanguine wishes gratified , in the fear as well as the hatred of the people ; can age ...
... lord , as arrived at the summit of worldly greatness : let us suppose that all your plans of ava- rice and ambition are accomplished , and your most sanguine wishes gratified , in the fear as well as the hatred of the people ; can age ...
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