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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... Wish in June . 3. The Infant Orator . 4. The Apple - Dumplings , and George the Third . 5. The Directing Post . 6. The Atheist and Acorn . 7. The Ass and the Nightingale . 8. The Young Fly and the Old Spider . 9. Spectacles , or Helps ...
... Wish in June . 3. The Infant Orator . 4. The Apple - Dumplings , and George the Third . 5. The Directing Post . 6. The Atheist and Acorn . 7. The Ass and the Nightingale . 8. The Young Fly and the Old Spider . 9. Spectacles , or Helps ...
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... wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear , or peace so sweet , as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take ; but as for me - give me liberty ; or give me ...
... wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear , or peace so sweet , as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take ; but as for me - give me liberty ; or give me ...
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... wish for our children better government or better laws ? As members of society , as lovers of our country , is there any thing we can desire for it better than , that , as ages and centu- ries roll over it , it may possess the same ...
... wish for our children better government or better laws ? As members of society , as lovers of our country , is there any thing we can desire for it better than , that , as ages and centu- ries roll over it , it may possess the same ...
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... wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years , to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the house ? Is it that insidious smile with which ...
... wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years , to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the house ? Is it that insidious smile with which ...
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... wish to be free - if we wish to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble strug- gle in which we have been so long engaged , and which we have ...
... wish to be free - if we wish to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble strug- gle in which we have been so long engaged , and which we have ...
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