Five-minute Declamations, Volume 2Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1899 - Recitations |
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... GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS . WHEN was there ever an auspicious day for humanity that was not one of doubt and of con- flict ? The robust , moral manhood of America confronts the future with steadfast faith and in- domitable will raising the ...
... GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS . WHEN was there ever an auspicious day for humanity that was not one of doubt and of con- flict ? The robust , moral manhood of America confronts the future with steadfast faith and in- domitable will raising the ...
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... GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS . I CANNOT Speak of the New England town - meet- ing without recalling its great genius , the New- Englander in whom the Revolution seemed to be most fully embodied . He was not eloquent like Otis , nor scholarly ...
... GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS . I CANNOT Speak of the New England town - meet- ing without recalling its great genius , the New- Englander in whom the Revolution seemed to be most fully embodied . He was not eloquent like Otis , nor scholarly ...
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... George II . , and at the coronation of George III . He is now not only the witness but the instrument and in some sort the impersonation of a far more substantial change of ... GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS . THE first 88 FIVE - MINUTE DECLAMATIONS.
... George II . , and at the coronation of George III . He is now not only the witness but the instrument and in some sort the impersonation of a far more substantial change of ... GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS . THE first 88 FIVE - MINUTE DECLAMATIONS.
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Walter K. Fobes. PAUL REVERE'S RIDE . GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS . THE first imposing armed movement against the colonies on the 19th of April , 1775 , did not take the people by surprise . For ten years they had seen the possibility , for ...
Walter K. Fobes. PAUL REVERE'S RIDE . GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS . THE first imposing armed movement against the colonies on the 19th of April , 1775 , did not take the people by surprise . For ten years they had seen the possibility , for ...
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... feeling , uttered the words , " So help me God . " There was his hope . There is the hope of every man . There is the hope of the nation . THE WASHINGTON ARCH IN NEW YORK . GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS 106 FIVE - MINUTE DECLAMATIONS.
... feeling , uttered the words , " So help me God . " There was his hope . There is the hope of every man . There is the hope of the nation . THE WASHINGTON ARCH IN NEW YORK . GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS 106 FIVE - MINUTE DECLAMATIONS.
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