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 ...S. Babcock, 1846 - 504 páginas |
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... breathing to us out of every page of our country's history , in the native eloquence of our mother tongue ; —that the colonial and provin- cial councils of America exhibit to us models of the spirits and character which gave Greece and ...
... breathing to us out of every page of our country's history , in the native eloquence of our mother tongue ; —that the colonial and provin- cial councils of America exhibit to us models of the spirits and character which gave Greece and ...
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... breath , by way of crowning the climax of vanity , bid the magnificent fire - ball to descend from its ex- alted and appropriate region , and perform its splendid tour along the surface of the earth ? Talents , which are before the ...
... breath , by way of crowning the climax of vanity , bid the magnificent fire - ball to descend from its ex- alted and appropriate region , and perform its splendid tour along the surface of the earth ? Talents , which are before the ...
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... breath of their king may kindle into such fury , that the blood of all England cannot extinguish it . 52. DECISIVE INTEGRITY . - Wirt . The man who is so conscious of the rectitude of his inten- tions , as to be willing to open his ...
... breath of their king may kindle into such fury , that the blood of all England cannot extinguish it . 52. DECISIVE INTEGRITY . - Wirt . The man who is so conscious of the rectitude of his inten- tions , as to be willing to open his ...
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... breath of war , and left " without agriculture , without commerce , and without arts : " the traces of a desolating foe are marked , not only on the site of lamented Scio , on the ramparts of Ipsara , Missolonghi , and the Acropolis ...
... breath of war , and left " without agriculture , without commerce , and without arts : " the traces of a desolating foe are marked , not only on the site of lamented Scio , on the ramparts of Ipsara , Missolonghi , and the Acropolis ...
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... breath of spring : but , Oh God , this paradise - this heaven is a hell to me ! -All is happiness around me , -all in the sweet spirit of peace ; the world is one family , -but its father there above is not my father ! —I am an outcast ...
... breath of spring : but , Oh God , this paradise - this heaven is a hell to me ! -All is happiness around me , -all in the sweet spirit of peace ; the world is one family , -but its father there above is not my father ! —I am an outcast ...
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Página 164 - Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Página 259 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
Página 164 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Página 166 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth...
Página 40 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Página 411 - To be more prince) as may be. You are sad. Hub. Indeed, I have been merrier. Arth. Mercy on me! Methinks, nobody should be sad but I : Yet, I remember, when I was in France, Young gentlemen would be as sad as night, Only for wantonness.
Página 311 - Jane; In bed she moaning lay, Till God released her of her pain ; And then she went away. So in the church-yard she was laid ; And when the grass was dry, Together round her grave we played, My brother John and I.
Página 285 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; And the bridemaidens whispered, "Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Página 167 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Página 163 - The gold and the crystal cannot equal it ; and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. No mention shall be made of coral or of pearls ; for the price of wisdom is above rubies.