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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... soul to the worship of virtue . Tell them your choice is also made . Tell them , with the illustrious Roman orator , you would rather be in the wrong with Plato , than in the right with Epicurus . Tell them that a mother in Sparta would ...
... soul to the worship of virtue . Tell them your choice is also made . Tell them , with the illustrious Roman orator , you would rather be in the wrong with Plato , than in the right with Epicurus . Tell them that a mother in Sparta would ...
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... soul ceases to be a soul , in proportion as it ceases to be free . Strip it of this , and you strip it of one of its essential and char- acteristic attributes . It is this that draws the footsteps of the wild Indian to his wide and ...
... soul ceases to be a soul , in proportion as it ceases to be free . Strip it of this , and you strip it of one of its essential and char- acteristic attributes . It is this that draws the footsteps of the wild Indian to his wide and ...
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... soul of a whole people centred in the bosom of those more than Spartan bands , and vibrated quickly and keenly with every incident that befell them , whether in their feats of valor , or the acuteness of their sufferings . The country ...
... soul of a whole people centred in the bosom of those more than Spartan bands , and vibrated quickly and keenly with every incident that befell them , whether in their feats of valor , or the acuteness of their sufferings . The country ...
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... soul with new hope and new daring . What else is to survive the age ? That which the age has little thought of , but which is living in us all ; I mean the soul , the immortal spirit of this all ages are the unfoldings , and it is ...
... soul with new hope and new daring . What else is to survive the age ? That which the age has little thought of , but which is living in us all ; I mean the soul , the immortal spirit of this all ages are the unfoldings , and it is ...
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... soul . His imagination has been dazzled by visions of diadems , of stars and garters , and titles of nobility . He has been taught to burn with restless emu- lation at the names of great heroes and conquerors . His en- chanted island is ...
... soul . His imagination has been dazzled by visions of diadems , of stars and garters , and titles of nobility . He has been taught to burn with restless emu- lation at the names of great heroes and conquerors . His en- chanted island is ...
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