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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... look for this standard only among those who unite these two characters , and with the correctness and precision of true learning com- bine the ease and elegance of genteel life . An attention to such models , and a free intercourse with ...
... look for this standard only among those who unite these two characters , and with the correctness and precision of true learning com- bine the ease and elegance of genteel life . An attention to such models , and a free intercourse with ...
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... look at the state of defence at home - to count the cost of the enterprize be- fore it is set on foot , not when it may be too late - when the best blood of the country shall be spilt , and nought but empty coffers left to pay the cost ...
... look at the state of defence at home - to count the cost of the enterprize be- fore it is set on foot , not when it may be too late - when the best blood of the country shall be spilt , and nought but empty coffers left to pay the cost ...
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... Look at your treasury reports . You now receive only six millions of revenue annually ; and this amount must be diminished in the same proportion as the rigorous execution of the or- ders in council shall increase . Before these orders ...
... Look at your treasury reports . You now receive only six millions of revenue annually ; and this amount must be diminished in the same proportion as the rigorous execution of the or- ders in council shall increase . Before these orders ...
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... Look at Spain . Did she secure her independence by submitting , in the first instance , to the dictates of imperial usurpations ? No. If she had resisted the first intrusions into her councils , her ' monarch would not at this time be a ...
... Look at Spain . Did she secure her independence by submitting , in the first instance , to the dictates of imperial usurpations ? No. If she had resisted the first intrusions into her councils , her ' monarch would not at this time be a ...
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... look at our own history . Our ancestors of the revolution resisted the first encroachments of British tyranny . They foresaw that by submitting to pay an illegal tax , contemptible as that tax was in itself , their liberties would ...
... look at our own history . Our ancestors of the revolution resisted the first encroachments of British tyranny . They foresaw that by submitting to pay an illegal tax , contemptible as that tax was in itself , their liberties would ...
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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...