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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... thou- sands . Pre - eminence , in whatever he chose to undertake , was he prerogative of Hamilton . No fixed criterion could be ap plied to his talents . Often has their display been supposed to nave reached the limit of human effort ...
... thou- sands . Pre - eminence , in whatever he chose to undertake , was he prerogative of Hamilton . No fixed criterion could be ap plied to his talents . Often has their display been supposed to nave reached the limit of human effort ...
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... thou disconsolate widow ! robbed , so cruelly robbed , and in so short a time , both of a husband and a son ! what must be the plenitude of thy sufferings ! Could we approach thee , gladly would we drop the tear of sympathy , and pour ...
... thou disconsolate widow ! robbed , so cruelly robbed , and in so short a time , both of a husband and a son ! what must be the plenitude of thy sufferings ! Could we approach thee , gladly would we drop the tear of sympathy , and pour ...
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... thou hast no weariness to clog thy waking hours , and no care to disturb thy repose . But know , child of the earth , that thou art born to trouble ; and that care , through every subsequent path of life , will haunt thee like a ghost ...
... thou hast no weariness to clog thy waking hours , and no care to disturb thy repose . But know , child of the earth , that thou art born to trouble ; and that care , through every subsequent path of life , will haunt thee like a ghost ...
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... thou , All- sand the adamantine Pizarro , hear me ! -Hear me , ch powerful ! whose thunder can shive rock , -whose lightnings can pierce to me core of the riven and quaking earth , -Oh ! let thy power give effect to thy servant's words ...
... thou , All- sand the adamantine Pizarro , hear me ! -Hear me , ch powerful ! whose thunder can shive rock , -whose lightnings can pierce to me core of the riven and quaking earth , -Oh ! let thy power give effect to thy servant's words ...
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... Thou more than soldier , and just less than sage ? All thou hast been reflects less fame on thee , Far less than all thou hast forborne to be . " 14 . FEMALE PATRIOTISM . -Madame Roland : - Minds which have any claim to greatness are ...
... Thou more than soldier , and just less than sage ? All thou hast been reflects less fame on thee , Far less than all thou hast forborne to be . " 14 . FEMALE PATRIOTISM . -Madame Roland : - Minds which have any claim to greatness are ...
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