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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... pass from men's minds . Over this age the night will , indeed , gather more and more as time 1olls away ; but in that night two forms will appear , Wash- ington and Napoleon , the one a lurid meteor , the other a benign , serene , and ...
... pass from men's minds . Over this age the night will , indeed , gather more and more as time 1olls away ; but in that night two forms will appear , Wash- ington and Napoleon , the one a lurid meteor , the other a benign , serene , and ...
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... pass away as a summer cloud . No measure of unalienable wrong , no measure of unconquerable disagree- ment , will be pressed upon us here . The fatal element of all our discord will be taken from amongst us . Let gentlemen be entreated ...
... pass away as a summer cloud . No measure of unalienable wrong , no measure of unconquerable disagree- ment , will be pressed upon us here . The fatal element of all our discord will be taken from amongst us . Let gentlemen be entreated ...
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... pass mournfully by us , and they return no more . Two centuries ago , the smoke of their wigwams and the fires of their councils rose in every valley , from Hudson's Bay to the farthest Florida , from the ocean to the Mississippi and ...
... pass mournfully by us , and they return no more . Two centuries ago , the smoke of their wigwams and the fires of their councils rose in every valley , from Hudson's Bay to the farthest Florida , from the ocean to the Mississippi and ...
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... pass off , and we hear of a new man , a Corsican lieutenant , the self - named " armed soldier of democracy " -Napoleon . He ravages Austria , covers her land with blood , drives the Northern Cæsar from his capital , and sleeps in his ...
... pass off , and we hear of a new man , a Corsican lieutenant , the self - named " armed soldier of democracy " -Napoleon . He ravages Austria , covers her land with blood , drives the Northern Cæsar from his capital , and sleeps in his ...
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... pass away in its turn - its bulwarks will be shaken by the rushing of mighty winds , and by the voice of the world - whenever a benignant expression is not restrained by the kindred sympa- thies of arb'rary power . I desire not to be ...
... pass away in its turn - its bulwarks will be shaken by the rushing of mighty winds , and by the voice of the world - whenever a benignant expression is not restrained by the kindred sympa- thies of arb'rary power . I desire not to be ...
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