The Book of Eloquence: A Collection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from the Most Famous Orators and Poets; Intended as Exercises for Declamation in Colleges and SchoolsCharles Dudley Warner Lee and Shepard, 1886 - 452 Seiten |
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... RUFUS CHOATE . WE are above all this . Let the highland clansman , half naked , half civilized , half blinded by the peat smoke of his cavern , have his hereditary enemy and his hereditary eninity , and keep the keen , deep , and ...
... RUFUS CHOATE . WE are above all this . Let the highland clansman , half naked , half civilized , half blinded by the peat smoke of his cavern , have his hereditary enemy and his hereditary eninity , and keep the keen , deep , and ...
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... RUFUS CHOATE . If one were called on to select the more glittering of the instances of military heroism to which the admiration of the world has been most constantly attracted , he would make choice , I imagine , of the instance of that ...
... RUFUS CHOATE . If one were called on to select the more glittering of the instances of military heroism to which the admiration of the world has been most constantly attracted , he would make choice , I imagine , of the instance of that ...
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... RUFUS CHOATE . In the reign of Mary , from 1553 to 1558 , a thousand learned Englishmen fled from the stake , at home , to the hap- pier seats of Continental Protestantism . Of these , great num- bers , I know not how many , came to ...
... RUFUS CHOATE . In the reign of Mary , from 1553 to 1558 , a thousand learned Englishmen fled from the stake , at home , to the hap- pier seats of Continental Protestantism . Of these , great num- bers , I know not how many , came to ...
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... RUFUS CHOATE . To the eye of these exiles , bruised and pierced through , by the accumulated oppressions of a civil and spiritual tyranny , to whom there were coming tidings every day , out of Eng- land , that another victim had been ...
... RUFUS CHOATE . To the eye of these exiles , bruised and pierced through , by the accumulated oppressions of a civil and spiritual tyranny , to whom there were coming tidings every day , out of Eng- land , that another victim had been ...
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