Five-minute Declamations, Volume 1Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1885 - Recitations |
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... blood of Bunker Hill , of Princeton , of Saratoga , of King's Mountain , of Yorktown ! -No , by the undying spirit of '76 ! - No , by the sacred dust enshrined at Mt. Vernon ! - No , by the dear immortal memory of Washington , that ...
... blood of Bunker Hill , of Princeton , of Saratoga , of King's Mountain , of Yorktown ! -No , by the undying spirit of '76 ! - No , by the sacred dust enshrined at Mt. Vernon ! - No , by the dear immortal memory of Washington , that ...
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Walter K. Fobes. the bones of their owners , and these streams run blood . It will be upon us , it will be upon us , if failing to maintain this unseasonable and ill - judged Declaration , a sterner despotism , maintained by mil- itary ...
Walter K. Fobes. the bones of their owners , and these streams run blood . It will be upon us , it will be upon us , if failing to maintain this unseasonable and ill - judged Declaration , a sterner despotism , maintained by mil- itary ...
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... blood ; but it will stand , and it will richly compensate for both . Through the thick gloom of the present , I see the brightness of the future , as the sun in heaven . We shall make this a glorious , an immortal day . When we are in ...
... blood ; but it will stand , and it will richly compensate for both . Through the thick gloom of the present , I see the brightness of the future , as the sun in heaven . We shall make this a glorious , an immortal day . When we are in ...
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... blood of Europe , and warmed the sunny plains of France and the lowlands of Holland . It has touched the philosophy of Germany and the North , and moving onward to the South , has opened to Greece the lessons of her better days . Can it ...
... blood of Europe , and warmed the sunny plains of France and the lowlands of Holland . It has touched the philosophy of Germany and the North , and moving onward to the South , has opened to Greece the lessons of her better days . Can it ...
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... blood which reddened the long , green grass at Lexington . It was my own name which stands chiselled on that stone . The tall captain who mar- shalled his fellow - farmers and mechanics into stern array , and spoke such brave and ...
... blood which reddened the long , green grass at Lexington . It was my own name which stands chiselled on that stone . The tall captain who mar- shalled his fellow - farmers and mechanics into stern array , and spoke such brave and ...
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