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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... thing we can desire for it better than , that , as ages and centu- ries roll over it , it may possess the same invaluable institutions which it now enjoys ? For my part , gentlemen , I can only say , that I desire to thank the ...
... thing we can desire for it better than , that , as ages and centu- ries roll over it , it may possess the same invaluable institutions which it now enjoys ? For my part , gentlemen , I can only say , that I desire to thank the ...
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... thing for nations to fall into the hands of the living God . -The day of vengeance is at hand ; the day of judgment ... things which are to come upon the earth ? Is this a time to run upon his neck and the thick bosses of his buckler ...
... thing for nations to fall into the hands of the living God . -The day of vengeance is at hand ; the day of judgment ... things which are to come upon the earth ? Is this a time to run upon his neck and the thick bosses of his buckler ...
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... things , must exist , when the duties exceed the risk and expense of the illicit intercourse . For a season , sir , the high moral sense of a young and uncorrupted people , may oppose some obstacle to these practices . No government on ...
... things , must exist , when the duties exceed the risk and expense of the illicit intercourse . For a season , sir , the high moral sense of a young and uncorrupted people , may oppose some obstacle to these practices . No government on ...
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... thing . He tore himself away from his country and his home , to fight the battles of freedom in a foreign land , and to make common cause with a people to whom he owed no duty . Nor was he satisfied with the devotion of his personal ...
... thing . He tore himself away from his country and his home , to fight the battles of freedom in a foreign land , and to make common cause with a people to whom he owed no duty . Nor was he satisfied with the devotion of his personal ...
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... thing new to offer upon the subject ? Nothing . We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable ; but it has been all in vain . Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication ? What terms shall we find which have ...
... thing new to offer upon the subject ? Nothing . We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable ; but it has been all in vain . Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication ? What terms shall we find which have ...
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