The Book of Eloquence: A Collection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from the Most Orators and Poets; Intended as Exercises for Declamation in Colleges and SchoolsMills, Crandall & Moseley, 1852 - 452 páginas |
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... enemy aside as tranquilly as he had done the feeblest of his adver- saries , and escaped from earth in the triumphant consciousness of immortality . His body has its fit resting - place in the great central val- ley of the Mississippi ...
... enemy aside as tranquilly as he had done the feeblest of his adver- saries , and escaped from earth in the triumphant consciousness of immortality . His body has its fit resting - place in the great central val- ley of the Mississippi ...
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... enemy , and during its continuance I feel bound by the highest sense of duty to contribute , by every means in my power , to the suc cess of my country's arms , and the humiliation and over- throw of the enemy . I stop not to ask the ...
... enemy , and during its continuance I feel bound by the highest sense of duty to contribute , by every means in my power , to the suc cess of my country's arms , and the humiliation and over- throw of the enemy . I stop not to ask the ...
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... enemy and the world with the terror of our arms . Sir , the hunters - up of conscience cases may approve it or not : I am well assured that this course it is my duty to adopt and pursue . I would not , while the gloomy cloud of war ...
... enemy and the world with the terror of our arms . Sir , the hunters - up of conscience cases may approve it or not : I am well assured that this course it is my duty to adopt and pursue . I would not , while the gloomy cloud of war ...
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... enemies have recovered from their terror , and found their military tools as brainless and as heartless as ever . At last Hungary mounts the funeral pyre of freedom and the sacrifice is complete , for Venice must trail her flag directly ...
... enemies have recovered from their terror , and found their military tools as brainless and as heartless as ever . At last Hungary mounts the funeral pyre of freedom and the sacrifice is complete , for Venice must trail her flag directly ...
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... enemies , has not , for more than seven hundred years , been stepped upon by a hostile foot . has enabled her to do this ? Her untiring labor ; her unrival- led skill ; her unequalled machinery ; her exhaustless capital , and unbounded ...
... enemies , has not , for more than seven hundred years , been stepped upon by a hostile foot . has enabled her to do this ? Her untiring labor ; her unrival- led skill ; her unequalled machinery ; her exhaustless capital , and unbounded ...
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