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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... father ; or with sacrilegious cupidity plundering the com- munion table of his God ? Who could witness , without indig- nant desperation , the mother who bore him , inhumanly murdered , in the defense of her infants ? Who could hear ...
... father ; or with sacrilegious cupidity plundering the com- munion table of his God ? Who could witness , without indig- nant desperation , the mother who bore him , inhumanly murdered , in the defense of her infants ? Who could hear ...
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... father of Harold ! " They fell back in astonishment , but they believed him ; for Harold's word was unquestioned , undoubted evidence , to them that knew him . 18. EFFECTS OF PROTESTANTISM . - Haven . It has been remarked , my friends ...
... father of Harold ! " They fell back in astonishment , but they believed him ; for Harold's word was unquestioned , undoubted evidence , to them that knew him . 18. EFFECTS OF PROTESTANTISM . - Haven . It has been remarked , my friends ...
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... fathers . Them we know , -the high - souled , natural , unaffected , the citizen heroes . We know what happy firesides they left for the cheerless camp . We know with what pacific habits they dared the perils of the field There is no ...
... fathers . Them we know , -the high - souled , natural , unaffected , the citizen heroes . We know what happy firesides they left for the cheerless camp . We know with what pacific habits they dared the perils of the field There is no ...
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... our fidelity to the constitution require no more of us than to enjoy its blessings , to bask in the prosperity which it has shed around us and our fathers ; and 5 AMERICAN ELOQUENCE 49 Webster Caractacus Speech of Belial, Dissuading.
... our fidelity to the constitution require no more of us than to enjoy its blessings , to bask in the prosperity which it has shed around us and our fathers ; and 5 AMERICAN ELOQUENCE 49 Webster Caractacus Speech of Belial, Dissuading.
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... in crowds to his hospitable mansion , to testify their ven- eration . to the illustrious compatriot of their fathers . I regret sir , that I have been compelled to say thus AMERICAN ELOQUENCE . 51 Soliloquy from Manfred.
... in crowds to his hospitable mansion , to testify their ven- eration . to the illustrious compatriot of their fathers . I regret sir , that I have been compelled to say thus AMERICAN ELOQUENCE . 51 Soliloquy from Manfred.
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