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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... morality have not been lost sight of . Great pains have been taken to distribute through the book , numerous pieces , suitable for the recitations of very young students . This , the Com . piler conceives , is an addition of no trifling ...
... morality have not been lost sight of . Great pains have been taken to distribute through the book , numerous pieces , suitable for the recitations of very young students . This , the Com . piler conceives , is an addition of no trifling ...
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... Moral Effects of Intemperance . 8. The Best of Classics . 9. Two Centuries from the Landing of the Pilgrims . 10 ... Morality . 22. No Excellence without Labor . 23. Relief of the Soldiers of the Revolution . 24. Influence of National ...
... Moral Effects of Intemperance . 8. The Best of Classics . 9. Two Centuries from the Landing of the Pilgrims . 10 ... Morality . 22. No Excellence without Labor . 23. Relief of the Soldiers of the Revolution . 24. Influence of National ...
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... moral endowments . Clear- ness , force , and earnestness , are the qualities which produce conviction . True eloquence , inuced , does not consist in speech . It cannot be brought from far . Labor and learning may toil for it , but they ...
... moral endowments . Clear- ness , force , and earnestness , are the qualities which produce conviction . True eloquence , inuced , does not consist in speech . It cannot be brought from far . Labor and learning may toil for it , but they ...
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... MORAL EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE . - Beecher . The sufferings of animal nature occasioned by intemperance , my friends , are not to be compared with the moral agonies which convulse the soul . It is an immortal being , who sins and suffers ...
... MORAL EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE . - Beecher . The sufferings of animal nature occasioned by intemperance , my friends , are not to be compared with the moral agonies which convulse the soul . It is an immortal being , who sins and suffers ...
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... moral condition of mankind . If we regard the value of its treasures , we must estimate them , not like the relics of classic antiquity , by the perishable glory and beauty , virtue and happiness of this world , but by the enduring ...
... moral condition of mankind . If we regard the value of its treasures , we must estimate them , not like the relics of classic antiquity , by the perishable glory and beauty , virtue and happiness of this world , but by the enduring ...
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