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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... Rome the mistress of the world , and Athens the protectress of Greece . When was it that Rome attracted most strongly the admiration of mankind , and impressed the deepest sentiment of fear on the hearts of her enemies ? It was when ...
... Rome the mistress of the world , and Athens the protectress of Greece . When was it that Rome attracted most strongly the admiration of mankind , and impressed the deepest sentiment of fear on the hearts of her enemies ? It was when ...
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... Rome herself the prophecy of Agamemnon , " The day shall come , the great avenging day , Which Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay : When Priam's power , and Priam's self shall fall , And one prodigious ruin swallow all . " In ...
... Rome herself the prophecy of Agamemnon , " The day shall come , the great avenging day , Which Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay : When Priam's power , and Priam's self shall fall , And one prodigious ruin swallow all . " In ...
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... Rome flour- ished in their greatest prosperity , and , mingling in the throng , should ask a Grecian if he did not fear that some daring military chieftain , covered with glory , some Philip , or Alexander , would one day overthrow the ...
... Rome flour- ished in their greatest prosperity , and , mingling in the throng , should ask a Grecian if he did not fear that some daring military chieftain , covered with glory , some Philip , or Alexander , would one day overthrow the ...
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... Rome ever saw - the edifice of constitutional Amer- ican liberty . Let us trust But , gentlemen , let us hope for better things . in that gracious Being who has hitherto held our country as in the hollow of his hand . Let us trust to ...
... Rome ever saw - the edifice of constitutional Amer- ican liberty . Let us trust But , gentlemen , let us hope for better things . in that gracious Being who has hitherto held our country as in the hollow of his hand . Let us trust to ...
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... Rome , it stands in calm and severe beauty amid the ruins of ancient magnificence al " the toys of modern state . " Within , no idle ornament encumbers its bold simplicity . The pure light of heaven enters from above and sheds an equal ...
... Rome , it stands in calm and severe beauty amid the ruins of ancient magnificence al " the toys of modern state . " Within , no idle ornament encumbers its bold simplicity . The pure light of heaven enters from above and sheds an equal ...
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