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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... sentiment of independence must have been connatural in the bosoms of Americans ; and sooner or later , must have blazed out into public action . Independence fits the soul of her residence for every noble enterprise of humanity and ...
... sentiment of independence must have been connatural in the bosoms of Americans ; and sooner or later , must have blazed out into public action . Independence fits the soul of her residence for every noble enterprise of humanity and ...
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... sentiments . could easily show you how much the manliness of English lit- erature , and the fearless intrepidity of German speculation , and how much even of the accurate sciences of France , may be ascribed to the spirit of protestant ...
... sentiments . could easily show you how much the manliness of English lit- erature , and the fearless intrepidity of German speculation , and how much even of the accurate sciences of France , may be ascribed to the spirit of protestant ...
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... sentiment of fear on the hearts of her enemies ? It was when seventy thousand of her sons lay bleeding at Cannæ , and Han- nibal , victorious over three Roman armies and twenty nations , was thundering at her gates . It was then that ...
... sentiment of fear on the hearts of her enemies ? It was when seventy thousand of her sons lay bleeding at Cannæ , and Han- nibal , victorious over three Roman armies and twenty nations , was thundering at her gates . It was then that ...
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... sentiment which ought to be cherished ; and , in spite of cavils , and sneers , and attempts to put it down , it will finally conduct this nation to tha height to which God and nature have destined it 25. FRAUDS UPON THE REVENUE ...
... sentiment which ought to be cherished ; and , in spite of cavils , and sneers , and attempts to put it down , it will finally conduct this nation to tha height to which God and nature have destined it 25. FRAUDS UPON THE REVENUE ...
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... sentiments not unlike those which the American traveler feels on entering the venerable and lofty cathedral of some proud old city of Europe . Its solemn grandeur , its vastness , its obscurity , strike awe to the heart . From the ...
... sentiments not unlike those which the American traveler feels on entering the venerable and lofty cathedral of some proud old city of Europe . Its solemn grandeur , its vastness , its obscurity , strike awe to the heart . From the ...
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