Five-minute Declamations, Volume 1Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1885 - Recitations |
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... virtue . It was an humble and peaceable religion flying from cause- less oppression . It was conscience attempting to escape from the arbitrary rule of the Stuarts . It was Robinson and Brewster leading off their little band from their ...
... virtue . It was an humble and peaceable religion flying from cause- less oppression . It was conscience attempting to escape from the arbitrary rule of the Stuarts . It was Robinson and Brewster leading off their little band from their ...
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... virtues cease to be abstrac- tions , when they become embodied in human char- acter , and exemplified in human conduct ... virtue of patriotism delights to contemplate its purest models ; and that love of country may be well suspected ...
... virtues cease to be abstrac- tions , when they become embodied in human char- acter , and exemplified in human conduct ... virtue of patriotism delights to contemplate its purest models ; and that love of country may be well suspected ...
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... virtues of the Father of his Country . And it will be so , in all time to come , so long as public virtue is itself an object of regard . The ingenuous youth of America will hold up to themselves the bright model of Washington's example ...
... virtues of the Father of his Country . And it will be so , in all time to come , so long as public virtue is itself an object of regard . The ingenuous youth of America will hold up to themselves the bright model of Washington's example ...
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... virtues and their valor ; I know they can achieve any but impossibilities , and I know that the conquest of British America is an impossibility . You cannot , my lords , you cannot conquer America . What is your present situation there ...
... virtues and their valor ; I know they can achieve any but impossibilities , and I know that the conquest of British America is an impossibility . You cannot , my lords , you cannot conquer America . What is your present situation there ...
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... virtues , and inspire us with a deeper and more solemn sense both of our privileges and of our duties . We cannot wish better for our country , nor for the world , than that the same spirit which influ- enced Washington may influence ...
... virtues , and inspire us with a deeper and more solemn sense both of our privileges and of our duties . We cannot wish better for our country , nor for the world , than that the same spirit which influ- enced Washington may influence ...
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