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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... common affliction . The loss of distinguished men is , at all times , a calamity ; but the loss of such a man , at such a time , and in the very meridian of his usefulness , is singularly portentous . When Washington was taken ...
... common affliction . The loss of distinguished men is , at all times , a calamity ; but the loss of such a man , at such a time , and in the very meridian of his usefulness , is singularly portentous . When Washington was taken ...
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... common cause with a people to whom he owed no duty . Nor was he satisfied with the devotion of his personal services . It is a matter of record on the pages of your history , that he armed a regiment for you : that he sent a vessel ...
... common cause with a people to whom he owed no duty . Nor was he satisfied with the devotion of his personal services . It is a matter of record on the pages of your history , that he armed a regiment for you : that he sent a vessel ...
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... common good , to resort to a system of legislation by which benefits and burdens are unequally distributed . Sir , can any gentleman look this subject fairly in the face , and not perceive that such a government as ours ( instituted for ...
... common good , to resort to a system of legislation by which benefits and burdens are unequally distributed . Sir , can any gentleman look this subject fairly in the face , and not perceive that such a government as ours ( instituted for ...
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... which connects you with society . I do not use this phrase , " honest men , " in the Garrow sense , merely , of meeting your pecuniary engagements , and paying your debts ; for this the common pride 72 UNITED STATES SPEAKER .
... which connects you with society . I do not use this phrase , " honest men , " in the Garrow sense , merely , of meeting your pecuniary engagements , and paying your debts ; for this the common pride 72 UNITED STATES SPEAKER .
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... common pride of gentle- men will constrain you to do . I use it in its larger sense of discharging all your duties , both public and private , both open and secret , with the most scrupulous , heaven - attesting integrity ; in that ...
... common pride of gentle- men will constrain you to do . I use it in its larger sense of discharging all your duties , both public and private , both open and secret , with the most scrupulous , heaven - attesting integrity ; in that ...
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