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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... deductions of logic , the high purpose the firm resolve , the dauntless spirit , speaking on the tongue , beaming from the eye , informing every feature , and urging the whole man onward , right onward to his object - 2.
... deductions of logic , the high purpose the firm resolve , the dauntless spirit , speaking on the tongue , beaming from the eye , informing every feature , and urging the whole man onward , right onward to his object - 2.
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... speak , for him have I offended ! " No , my fellow- citizens , these scenes are never to be witnessed by American eyes . The souls of your ancestors still live in the bosoms of their descendants ; and rather than submit this fair land ...
... speak , for him have I offended ! " No , my fellow- citizens , these scenes are never to be witnessed by American eyes . The souls of your ancestors still live in the bosoms of their descendants ; and rather than submit this fair land ...
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... speaking its praise , “ it is silently fulfilling its destined course ; " it is raising many a heart to the throne of God 19 . THE TRUE SOURCES OF NATIONAL GREATNESS . - Harper . When France shall at length be convinced that we are ...
... speaking its praise , “ it is silently fulfilling its destined course ; " it is raising many a heart to the throne of God 19 . THE TRUE SOURCES OF NATIONAL GREATNESS . - Harper . When France shall at length be convinced that we are ...
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... speak , from observation , a certain truth : there is no excellence without great labor . It is the fiat of fate from which no power of genius can absolve you . Genius , unexerted , is like the poor moth that flutters around a candle ...
... speak , from observation , a certain truth : there is no excellence without great labor . It is the fiat of fate from which no power of genius can absolve you . Genius , unexerted , is like the poor moth that flutters around a candle ...
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... speak what I have long and deliberately considered , when I say , that since man was created , there never has been a political body on the face of the earth , that would not be corrupted under the same circumstances . Cor- ruption ...
... speak what I have long and deliberately considered , when I say , that since man was created , there never has been a political body on the face of the earth , that would not be corrupted under the same circumstances . Cor- ruption ...
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