Five-minute Declamations, Volume 1Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1885 - Recitations |
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... opened their barriers that the " loud call " might pass through to the hardy riflemen on the Holston , the Watauga and the French Broad . Ever renewing its strength , powerful enough even to create a com- monwealth , it breathed its ...
... opened their barriers that the " loud call " might pass through to the hardy riflemen on the Holston , the Watauga and the French Broad . Ever renewing its strength , powerful enough even to create a com- monwealth , it breathed its ...
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... opened , and a voice ex- claimed , " It has passed . " The word leaped like lightning from lip to lip , followed by huzzas that shook the building . The boy - sentinel clapped his hands , and shouted to the bell - man , " Ring ! ring ...
... opened , and a voice ex- claimed , " It has passed . " The word leaped like lightning from lip to lip , followed by huzzas that shook the building . The boy - sentinel clapped his hands , and shouted to the bell - man , " Ring ! ring ...
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... opened to Greece the lessons of her better days . Can it be that America under such circumstances can betray herself ? Can it be that she is to be added to the catalogue of republics , the inscription upon whose ruins is , " They were ...
... opened to Greece the lessons of her better days . Can it be that America under such circumstances can betray herself ? Can it be that she is to be added to the catalogue of republics , the inscription upon whose ruins is , " They were ...
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... stone . The tall captain who mar- shalled his fellow - farmers and mechanics into stern array , and spoke such brave and dangerous words FOUNDATION OF BUNKER HILL MONUMENT . 57 as opened the 56 FIVE - MINUTE DECLAMATIONS .
... stone . The tall captain who mar- shalled his fellow - farmers and mechanics into stern array , and spoke such brave and dangerous words FOUNDATION OF BUNKER HILL MONUMENT . 57 as opened the 56 FIVE - MINUTE DECLAMATIONS .
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Walter K. Fobes. FOUNDATION OF BUNKER HILL MONUMENT . 57 as opened the war of American Independence , the last to leave the field , was my father's father . I learned to read out of his Bible ; and with a musket he that day captured from ...
Walter K. Fobes. FOUNDATION OF BUNKER HILL MONUMENT . 57 as opened the war of American Independence , the last to leave the field , was my father's father . I learned to read out of his Bible ; and with a musket he that day captured from ...
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