The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American Authors, of the Most Admired Specimens of Congressional, Forensic, Pulpit and Popular Eloquence, with Dialogues and Poetical Extracts, Adapted to Public Recitation : and an Introduction, Embracing the Principle Rules Relating to Delivery and ActionPublished and sold by Daniel Fenton, Thomas T. Stiles, printer, 1815 - 324 страници |
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... conducted with unusual correctness ; but there are , nevertheless , some few typographical errors , perhaps more than are corrected in the Errata , which must be ascribed to the oversight of the compiler alone , under the circumstances ...
... conducted with unusual correctness ; but there are , nevertheless , some few typographical errors , perhaps more than are corrected in the Errata , which must be ascribed to the oversight of the compiler alone , under the circumstances ...
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... conduct ? In one way only ; some powerful nation must have intrigued with them , and turned their peaceful dis- position towards us into hostilities . - Great Britain alone , has intercourse with those northern tribes ; I therefore ...
... conduct ? In one way only ; some powerful nation must have intrigued with them , and turned their peaceful dis- position towards us into hostilities . - Great Britain alone , has intercourse with those northern tribes ; I therefore ...
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... conduct demands the course we have proposed . In the year 1808 , congress declared that this nation had but three alterna- tives left ; war , embargo , or submission ; since that time no advantageous change has taken place in our ...
... conduct demands the course we have proposed . In the year 1808 , congress declared that this nation had but three alterna- tives left ; war , embargo , or submission ; since that time no advantageous change has taken place in our ...
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... conducted . This is the radical infirmity . Public opinion , strong and united , is not with you , in your Can- ada ... conduct you to your object . Continuation of Mr. Webster's Speech , on the bill ma- 44 AMERICAN ORATOR . - WEBSTER .
... conducted . This is the radical infirmity . Public opinion , strong and united , is not with you , in your Can- ada ... conduct you to your object . Continuation of Mr. Webster's Speech , on the bill ma- 44 AMERICAN ORATOR . - WEBSTER .
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... conducted , if even now , failing in an honest and sincere attempt to procure just and honoura- ble peace , it will return to measures , of defence and pro- tection , such as reason , and common sense and the pub- lic opinion all call ...
... conducted , if even now , failing in an honest and sincere attempt to procure just and honoura- ble peace , it will return to measures , of defence and pro- tection , such as reason , and common sense and the pub- lic opinion all call ...
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Страница 303 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Страница 316 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Страница 76 - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Страница 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Страница 322 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Страница 313 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gem'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Страница 316 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Страница 314 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...