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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... voice was gone ; her favorite languages were extinct ; her organs were no longer attuned to harmony , and her hearers could no longer understand her speech . The discordant jargon of feudal anarchy had banished the musical dialects , in ...
... voice was gone ; her favorite languages were extinct ; her organs were no longer attuned to harmony , and her hearers could no longer understand her speech . The discordant jargon of feudal anarchy had banished the musical dialects , in ...
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... voice of warning and encouragement is never to die . Its impression on history is Indelible . Amidst its events , the American Revolution , the first distinct , solemn assertion of the rights of men , and the French Revolution , that ...
... voice of warning and encouragement is never to die . Its impression on history is Indelible . Amidst its events , the American Revolution , the first distinct , solemn assertion of the rights of men , and the French Revolution , that ...
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... voice- " Here , take it - take it- oh ! take it from me , let me die , so that Mirabeau and the liberties of my country may not perish ! " Give us something only of such a spirit as this - something only of such a love of country , and ...
... voice- " Here , take it - take it- oh ! take it from me , let me die , so that Mirabeau and the liberties of my country may not perish ! " Give us something only of such a spirit as this - something only of such a love of country , and ...
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... voice to such a note of remonstrance , it should reach every log house beyond the mountains . I would say to the inhabitants , wake from your false security ; your cruel dangers , your more cruel apprehensions are soon to be renewed ...
... voice to such a note of remonstrance , it should reach every log house beyond the mountains . I would say to the inhabitants , wake from your false security ; your cruel dangers , your more cruel apprehensions are soon to be renewed ...
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... voice of human- ity issues from the shade of the wilderness ; it exclaims that , while one hand is held up to reject this treaty , the other grasps a tomahawk . It summons our imagination to the scenes that will open . It is no great ...
... voice of human- ity issues from the shade of the wilderness ; it exclaims that , while one hand is held up to reject this treaty , the other grasps a tomahawk . It summons our imagination to the scenes that will open . It is no great ...
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