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 oldal |
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... tion of the usual hackneyed colloquies of school - books would only serve to crowd out more useful matter . Yet , in making this a new book , the editor has not permitted himself to lose sight of those master - pieces of eloquence ...
... tion of the usual hackneyed colloquies of school - books would only serve to crowd out more useful matter . Yet , in making this a new book , the editor has not permitted himself to lose sight of those master - pieces of eloquence ...
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... tion to conceive that events so near are already begun I can fancy that I listen to the yells of savage vengeance , and the shrieks of torture ; already they seem to sigh in the Western wind ; already they mingle with every echo from ...
... tion to conceive that events so near are already begun I can fancy that I listen to the yells of savage vengeance , and the shrieks of torture ; already they seem to sigh in the Western wind ; already they mingle with every echo from ...
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... tion as they are mingled more deeply with the tones of despair ! And men have listened , and admired , and have been made the dupes of their imaginations . But the scales of delusion are falling from the eyes of nations , and the ...
... tion as they are mingled more deeply with the tones of despair ! And men have listened , and admired , and have been made the dupes of their imaginations . But the scales of delusion are falling from the eyes of nations , and the ...
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... tion . What has raised the Gaul , the Belgium , the Germany , the Scandinavia , the Britain of ancient geography to their present improved and improving condition ? Africa is not now sunk lower than most of those countries were eighteen ...
... tion . What has raised the Gaul , the Belgium , the Germany , the Scandinavia , the Britain of ancient geography to their present improved and improving condition ? Africa is not now sunk lower than most of those countries were eighteen ...
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... tion with the revered memories of father , brother , and friend ! But when a whole people , united by a common disregard of justice , conspire to defraud public creditors ; and States vie with States in an infamous repudiation of just ...
... tion with the revered memories of father , brother , and friend ! But when a whole people , united by a common disregard of justice , conspire to defraud public creditors ; and States vie with States in an infamous repudiation of just ...
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