Five-minute Declamations, Volume 1Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1885 - Recitations |
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... light of knowledge throughout the land , and , in time , paying back where they have borrowed , shall contribute their part to the great aggregate of human knowledge ; and our descendants , through all gen- erations , shall look back to ...
... light of knowledge throughout the land , and , in time , paying back where they have borrowed , shall contribute their part to the great aggregate of human knowledge ; and our descendants , through all gen- erations , shall look back to ...
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... light , to cheer and guide the country's friends , it flamed , too , like a meteor , to repel her foes . That name , in days of peace , was a loadstone attracting to itself a whole people's confidence , a whole people's love , and the ...
... light , to cheer and guide the country's friends , it flamed , too , like a meteor , to repel her foes . That name , in days of peace , was a loadstone attracting to itself a whole people's confidence , a whole people's love , and the ...
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... lights . WASHINGTON AND THE UNION . DANIEL WEBSTER . THERE was in the breast of Washington one sen timent so deeply felt , so constantly uppermost , that no proper occasion escaped without its utterance . From the letter which he signed ...
... lights . WASHINGTON AND THE UNION . DANIEL WEBSTER . THERE was in the breast of Washington one sen timent so deeply felt , so constantly uppermost , that no proper occasion escaped without its utterance . From the letter which he signed ...
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... light and hope and joy upon the path- way of human liberty throughout the world , and Washington needs no other monument . Other structures may fitly test our veneration for him ; this , this alone can adequately illustrate his services ...
... light and hope and joy upon the path- way of human liberty throughout the world , and Washington needs no other monument . Other structures may fitly test our veneration for him ; this , this alone can adequately illustrate his services ...
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... light or new liberty for the benighted or the op- pressed , bear witness this day , and trace itself di- rectly or indirectly back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on ...
... light or new liberty for the benighted or the op- pressed , bear witness this day , and trace itself di- rectly or indirectly back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on ...
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American sailor amid ancient arms army behold blood brave Bunker Hill BUNKER HILL MONUMENT Cæsar CARL SCHURZ Carthage cause century CHARLES SUMNER cherished citizen civil clouds Constitution danger DANIEL WEBSTER dead earth eloquence enemy England Europe eyes fame Faneuil Hall fathers feeling forever freedom friends GALILEO GALILEI glorious glory hand happy heart Heaven heroes honor hope HUMAN LIBERTY hundred immortal independence JONATHAN MAXCY justice king labor land lips live look mankind martyrs Massachusetts memory ment mighty minute-man monument monumental brass nature ness never noble O'Connell OLD SOUTH CHURCH patriotism peace PILGRIMS political prosperity Republic Revolution sacred Sam Adams sentiment shore slaves soldier South Carolina speech spirit stand sword symbol tell temple thought tion to-day TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE trust truth victory virtue voice Washington WENDELL PHILLIPS whole country