The American Orator's Own Book: A Manual of Extemporaneous Eloquence Including a Course of Discipline for the Faculties of Discrimination, Arrangement and Oral Discussion and Also Practical Exercises in Reading, Recitations and Declamatory Debate : Intended for the Use of Colleges, Schools, Students of Oratory, and All Public Speakers |
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Page 51
... honours , pleasures , steal away the heart from re- ligion . Forget not , that the brightest part of thy life is nothing but a flower , which withers almost as soon as it has blown . Prepare for thyself , by the purity of thy manners ...
... honours , pleasures , steal away the heart from re- ligion . Forget not , that the brightest part of thy life is nothing but a flower , which withers almost as soon as it has blown . Prepare for thyself , by the purity of thy manners ...
Page 52
... honour ; a third sort are devoted to their pleasures ; and a few are engaged in the nobler pursuits of learning and wisdom . Sentences divided by a Colon . Apply thyself to learning : it will redound to thy honour . Read the Scriptures ...
... honour ; a third sort are devoted to their pleasures ; and a few are engaged in the nobler pursuits of learning and wisdom . Sentences divided by a Colon . Apply thyself to learning : it will redound to thy honour . Read the Scriptures ...
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... honours ! I lie prostrate on the earth ! Farewell ! a long farewell to all my greatness ! It stands , solid and entire ! but it stands alone ! and it stands amidst ruins ! How glorious are the works of God ! How presumptuous is man ...
... honours ! I lie prostrate on the earth ! Farewell ! a long farewell to all my greatness ! It stands , solid and entire ! but it stands alone ! and it stands amidst ruins ! How glorious are the works of God ! How presumptuous is man ...
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... honour any kind of intelligence concern . ing the poor lieutenant- Is he of the army then ? said my Uncle Toby . Base as thou art false - No . Art thou not - what ? -a traitor ? And God said - what ? -Let there be light ! And longer had ...
... honour any kind of intelligence concern . ing the poor lieutenant- Is he of the army then ? said my Uncle Toby . Base as thou art false - No . Art thou not - what ? -a traitor ? And God said - what ? -Let there be light ! And longer had ...
Page 83
... been spoken of , you might anticipate the want of conviction , expressed in his answer , at the moment that he submitted to the superior wisdom of the - court , with a grace that would have done honour Discrimination and Retention . 83.
... been spoken of , you might anticipate the want of conviction , expressed in his answer , at the moment that he submitted to the superior wisdom of the - court , with a grace that would have done honour Discrimination and Retention . 83.
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Page 157 - Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice. Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course ; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Page 101 - The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen 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 death!
Page 183 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 105 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 157 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings, — yet the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep, — the dead reign there alone.
Page 111 - Publish it from the pulpit ; religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it or fall with it. Send it to the public halls ; proclaim it there ; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon ; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support.
Page 157 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 111 - to use all the means which God and Nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house or in this country...
Page 113 - I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is the charity of its silence! Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Page 37 - Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war; In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage.