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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... enemies shall have bound us hand and foot ? Sir , we are not weak , if we make a proper use of those means which the ... enemy can send against us . Besides . sir , we shall not fight our battles alone . There is a just God who presides ...
... enemies shall have bound us hand and foot ? Sir , we are not weak , if we make a proper use of those means which the ... enemy can send against us . Besides . sir , we shall not fight our battles alone . There is a just God who presides ...
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... enemies ? It was when seventy thousand of her sons lay bleeding at Cannæ , and Han- nibal , victorious over three ... enemy , and having transferred their wives , their children , their aged parents , and the symbols of their religion ...
... enemies ? It was when seventy thousand of her sons lay bleeding at Cannæ , and Han- nibal , victorious over three ... enemy , and having transferred their wives , their children , their aged parents , and the symbols of their religion ...
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... enemy of mankind could not have consummated his infernal scheme for the seduction of our first parents , but for the disguise in which he presented himself . Had he appeared as the devil , in his proper form ; had the spear of Ithuriel ...
... enemy of mankind could not have consummated his infernal scheme for the seduction of our first parents , but for the disguise in which he presented himself . Had he appeared as the devil , in his proper form ; had the spear of Ithuriel ...
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... enemy in this quarter of the world , to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies ? No , sir , she has none . They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other . They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains ...
... enemy in this quarter of the world , to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies ? No , sir , she has none . They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other . They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains ...
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... enemies . And if novelties are to be shunned , believe me , the most alarming of all novelties , the most wild of all projects , the most rash of all attempts , is that of rending us in pieces , in order to preserve our liberties and ...
... enemies . And if novelties are to be shunned , believe me , the most alarming of all novelties , the most wild of all projects , the most rash of all attempts , is that of rending us in pieces , in order to preserve our liberties and ...
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