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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... ruin irretrievable , and that we are lost ir- recoverably . But , sir , while there is yet life , there is still hope . I will not , must not , dare not , abandon the country . If deserted by its true friends now , it will sink so low ...
... ruin irretrievable , and that we are lost ir- recoverably . But , sir , while there is yet life , there is still hope . I will not , must not , dare not , abandon the country . If deserted by its true friends now , it will sink so low ...
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... ruin ; to assist in forging chains for posterity if not for ourselves . I confess , sir , I have the less difficulty in voting sup- plies , and uniting to recover public credit , since the dis- closure made to the house by the President ...
... ruin ; to assist in forging chains for posterity if not for ourselves . I confess , sir , I have the less difficulty in voting sup- plies , and uniting to recover public credit , since the dis- closure made to the house by the President ...
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... ruin of the country . The root of the evil is not this , or that blunder ; but it is the political system of administration , not only in relation to the finances , but to the general policy of the government . It has been tried ...
... ruin of the country . The root of the evil is not this , or that blunder ; but it is the political system of administration , not only in relation to the finances , but to the general policy of the government . It has been tried ...
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... ruins ! surrounded by the loathsome objects of our dis- honour ! Indebted to the vandals for the roof that covers us . The government itself paralyzed , chained down as it were , by the drowsiness that precedes death . And yet ...
... ruins ! surrounded by the loathsome objects of our dis- honour ! Indebted to the vandals for the roof that covers us . The government itself paralyzed , chained down as it were , by the drowsiness that precedes death . And yet ...
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... ruined , and yet those who hold its destinies be happy ! But to revert to the expression already made , that pa- radoxical as it might appear , a measure is more likely to succeed for being contradictory to common sense , and common ...
... ruined , and yet those who hold its destinies be happy ! But to revert to the expression already made , that pa- radoxical as it might appear , a measure is more likely to succeed for being contradictory to common sense , and common ...
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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.
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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...