Five-minute Declamations, Volume 1Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1885 - Recitations |
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... fathers . The vessel which was to receive them did not come until the next day ; and in the mean time the little band was collected , and men and women and children and baggage were crowded together in melancholy and distressed ...
... fathers . The vessel which was to receive them did not come until the next day ; and in the mean time the little band was collected , and men and women and children and baggage were crowded together in melancholy and distressed ...
Page 28
... Father of his Country . And it will be so , in all time to come , so long as public virtue is itself an object of regard . The ingenuous youth of America will hold up to themselves the bright model of Washington's example , and study to ...
... Father of his Country . And it will be so , in all time to come , so long as public virtue is itself an object of regard . The ingenuous youth of America will hold up to themselves the bright model of Washington's example , and study to ...
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... Father of his Country . Build it to the skies , — you cannot outreach the loftiness of his principles . Found it upon the massive and eternal rock , cannot make it more enduring than his fame . Con- struct it of the peerless Parian ...
... Father of his Country . Build it to the skies , — you cannot outreach the loftiness of his principles . Found it upon the massive and eternal rock , cannot make it more enduring than his fame . Con- struct it of the peerless Parian ...
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... father , who left the plough in the fur- row , the hammer on the bench , and kissing wife and children , marched to die or to be free . The minute- man of the Revolution ! He was the old , the mid- dle aged , the young . He was Capt ...
... father , who left the plough in the fur- row , the hammer on the bench , and kissing wife and children , marched to die or to be free . The minute- man of the Revolution ! He was the old , the mid- dle aged , the young . He was Capt ...
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... fathers , who on this spot struck the first blow in the contest which made our country independent . Here , beneath the hills they trod , by the peaceful river on whose shores they dwelt , amidst the fields that they sowed and reaped ...
... fathers , who on this spot struck the first blow in the contest which made our country independent . Here , beneath the hills they trod , by the peaceful river on whose shores they dwelt , amidst the fields that they sowed and reaped ...
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