Five-minute Declamations, Volume 1Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1885 - Recitations |
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Page 41
... sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill , and in the streets of Lexington and Concord , and the very walls will cry out in its support . - - - - Sir , I know the uncertainty of human affairs , but , I see , I see clearly , through this ...
... sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill , and in the streets of Lexington and Concord , and the very walls will cry out in its support . - - - - Sir , I know the uncertainty of human affairs , but , I see , I see clearly , through this ...
Page 43
... sons of rapine and plunder , devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty . If I were an American , as I am an Englishman , while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms , never ...
... sons of rapine and plunder , devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty . If I were an American , as I am an Englishman , while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms , never ...
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... sons were united at Thermopyla and Marathon , and the tide of her triumph rolled back upon the Hellespont . She was conquered by her own factions . She fell by the hands of her own people . Rome , republican Rome , whose eagles glanced ...
... sons were united at Thermopyla and Marathon , and the tide of her triumph rolled back upon the Hellespont . She was conquered by her own factions . She fell by the hands of her own people . Rome , republican Rome , whose eagles glanced ...
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... sons of the founder's sons were blind . Roaring blast and smoky forge and ringing hammer are tearing and breaking the wealth of princes from his mines , that the founder never knew . Clasping the continent from sea to sea , stretches a ...
... sons of the founder's sons were blind . Roaring blast and smoky forge and ringing hammer are tearing and breaking the wealth of princes from his mines , that the founder never knew . Clasping the continent from sea to sea , stretches a ...
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... and the country ; or , if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the South , and if moved by local prejudice , or gan- grened by State jealousy , I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and just.
... and the country ; or , if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the South , and if moved by local prejudice , or gan- grened by State jealousy , I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and just.
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