Five-minute Declamations, Volume 1Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1885 - Recitations |
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... Soldiers ' Monument , The . Swift 161 120 73 105 South Carolina and Massachusetts . Webster Sumner , Charles . Schurz Sword , The . Grimké . 77 102 153 Sword , The , and a Nation's Rights . Meagher 155 Toussaint L'Ouverture . W ...
... Soldiers ' Monument , The . Swift 161 120 73 105 South Carolina and Massachusetts . Webster Sumner , Charles . Schurz Sword , The . Grimké . 77 102 153 Sword , The , and a Nation's Rights . Meagher 155 Toussaint L'Ouverture . W ...
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... soldier , each exclaiming , " You are a dead man . " The Briton dropped , shot through the heart . Young Hayward fell , mortally wounded . Father , " said he , " I started with forty balls , I have three left . I never did such a day's ...
... soldier , each exclaiming , " You are a dead man . " The Briton dropped , shot through the heart . Young Hayward fell , mortally wounded . Father , " said he , " I started with forty balls , I have three left . I never did such a day's ...
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... soldiers of the Concord fight were yet living , twenty - five years ago , while still a few venerable survivors lingered , you renewed the pious vow . But the last living link with the Revolution has long been broken ; and we who stand ...
... soldiers of the Concord fight were yet living , twenty - five years ago , while still a few venerable survivors lingered , you renewed the pious vow . But the last living link with the Revolution has long been broken ; and we who stand ...
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... obstructed an officer , " with brave words . British soldiers , a thousand strong , came to seize them , and carry them over seas for trial , and so nip the bud of freedom auspiciously opening in that early spring . The town militia came.
... obstructed an officer , " with brave words . British soldiers , a thousand strong , came to seize them , and carry them over seas for trial , and so nip the bud of freedom auspiciously opening in that early spring . The town militia came.
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... soldier of the constitution , be- cause it created and continued the government of " a more perfect Union , " is as fixed as the everlasting hills of his native State . With a vision that was prophetic , he witnessed the growing ...
... soldier of the constitution , be- cause it created and continued the government of " a more perfect Union , " is as fixed as the everlasting hills of his native State . With a vision that was prophetic , he witnessed the growing ...
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