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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... once shaded this beautiful quarter of the globe Consternation for awhile agitated the hearts of the inhabitants War desolated our fields , and buried our vales in blood . But the day - spring from on high soon opened upon us its ...
... once shaded this beautiful quarter of the globe Consternation for awhile agitated the hearts of the inhabitants War desolated our fields , and buried our vales in blood . But the day - spring from on high soon opened upon us its ...
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... once lovely and of good report retires , and leaves the wretch abandoned to the appetites of a ruined animal . In this deplorable condition , reputation expires , business falters and becomes perplexed , and temptations to drink ...
... once lovely and of good report retires , and leaves the wretch abandoned to the appetites of a ruined animal . In this deplorable condition , reputation expires , business falters and becomes perplexed , and temptations to drink ...
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... once proud fabric of a Roman empire — an empire carrying its arts and arms into every part of the eastern conti- nent ; the monarchs of mighty kingdoms dragged at the wheels of her triumphal chariots ; her eagle waving over the ruins of ...
... once proud fabric of a Roman empire — an empire carrying its arts and arms into every part of the eastern conti- nent ; the monarchs of mighty kingdoms dragged at the wheels of her triumphal chariots ; her eagle waving over the ruins of ...
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... once ? Whilst the Mississippi continues to bear the tributes of the Iron Mountains and the Alleghanies to her Delta and to the Gulf of Mexico , the eighth of January shall be remembered , and the glory of that day shall stimulate future ...
... once ? Whilst the Mississippi continues to bear the tributes of the Iron Mountains and the Alleghanies to her Delta and to the Gulf of Mexico , the eighth of January shall be remembered , and the glory of that day shall stimulate future ...
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... once more beau- tiful in the tints of nature , and rich in the melody of fount , and leaf , and breeze . The waters have swallowed into their depths the dying and the dead , and the ruined fleets both of victor and vanquished ; and ...
... once more beau- tiful in the tints of nature , and rich in the melody of fount , and leaf , and breeze . The waters have swallowed into their depths the dying and the dead , and the ruined fleets both of victor and vanquished ; and ...
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