Five-minute Declamations, Volume 1Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1885 - Recitations |
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Page 14
... telling us , that Mr. Webster came home from Washington at the time the Whig party thought of dissolution , and went down to Faneuil Hall to protest . Drawing himself up to his loftiest proportion , his brow clothed with thunder ...
... telling us , that Mr. Webster came home from Washington at the time the Whig party thought of dissolution , and went down to Faneuil Hall to protest . Drawing himself up to his loftiest proportion , his brow clothed with thunder ...
Page 15
... tell the slave - holder of the Carolinas that God's thunderbolts are hot , and to remind the bondman that the dawn of his redemption is already breaking . " You seemed to hear the tones coming back to Lon- don from the Rocky Mountains ...
... tell the slave - holder of the Carolinas that God's thunderbolts are hot , and to remind the bondman that the dawn of his redemption is already breaking . " You seemed to hear the tones coming back to Lon- don from the Rocky Mountains ...
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... tell me , on any principle of human probability what shall be the fate of this handful of adventurers ? Tell me , man of military science , in how many months were they all swept off by the thirty savage tribes enumer- ated within the ...
... tell me , on any principle of human probability what shall be the fate of this handful of adventurers ? Tell me , man of military science , in how many months were they all swept off by the thirty savage tribes enumer- ated within the ...
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... tell me , that has brought us to a celebration of Washington's birthday ? Is it not the steady cry of excelsior up to the most ele- vated regions of political purity , secured to us by the memory of those who have passed before us , and ...
... tell me , that has brought us to a celebration of Washington's birthday ? Is it not the steady cry of excelsior up to the most ele- vated regions of political purity , secured to us by the memory of those who have passed before us , and ...
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... Tell mother not to mourn too much , and tell her whom I love more than my mother , that I am not sorry I turned out . " This was the minute - man of the Revolution ! The rural citizen , trained in the common school , the town meeting ...
... Tell mother not to mourn too much , and tell her whom I love more than my mother , that I am not sorry I turned out . " This was the minute - man of the Revolution ! The rural citizen , trained in the common school , the town meeting ...
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