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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... dark cloud once shaded this beautiful quarter of the globe Consternation for awhile agitated the hearts of the ... darkness is past , and the true light now shines to enliven and rejoice mankind . W tread a new earth , in which dwelleth ...
... dark cloud once shaded this beautiful quarter of the globe Consternation for awhile agitated the hearts of the ... darkness is past , and the true light now shines to enliven and rejoice mankind . W tread a new earth , in which dwelleth ...
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... dark , bleak caverns in the rocks . See them hunted like beasts of prey . See them emaciated , worn with disease , clung with famine - yet laboring with supernatural zeal in feeding the hungry with that bread which gives life ...
... dark , bleak caverns in the rocks . See them hunted like beasts of prey . See them emaciated , worn with disease , clung with famine - yet laboring with supernatural zeal in feeding the hungry with that bread which gives life ...
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... darkness . Beware , then , sir , how you give a fatal sanction , in this infant period of our republic , to military insub- ordination . Remember that Greece had her Alexander , Rome her Cesar , England her Cromwell , France her ...
... darkness . Beware , then , sir , how you give a fatal sanction , in this infant period of our republic , to military insub- ordination . Remember that Greece had her Alexander , Rome her Cesar , England her Cromwell , France her ...
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... dark recess behind . I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty , when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder . I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion 44 UNITED STATES ...
... dark recess behind . I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty , when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder . I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion 44 UNITED STATES ...
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... darkness from distant nations . Its turrets will swell into the heavens , rising above every tempest : and the pillar of divine glory , descending from God , will rest for ever on its summit . 35 . OBLIGATIONS OF MASSACHUSETTS TO STAND ...
... darkness from distant nations . Its turrets will swell into the heavens , rising above every tempest : and the pillar of divine glory , descending from God , will rest for ever on its summit . 35 . OBLIGATIONS OF MASSACHUSETTS TO STAND ...
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