Five-minute Declamations, Volume 2Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1899 - Recitations |
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... President and the Congress and the courts and all that was gathered there . And I felt that the sun in all its course could not look down on a better sight than that majestic home of a republic that had taught the world its best lessons ...
... President and the Congress and the courts and all that was gathered there . And I felt that the sun in all its course could not look down on a better sight than that majestic home of a republic that had taught the world its best lessons ...
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... Presidents may not rise to the full measure of his greatness , but they must not fall below his standard of public duty and obligation . His life and character , conscientiously studied and thor- oughly understood by coming generations ...
... Presidents may not rise to the full measure of his greatness , but they must not fall below his standard of public duty and obligation . His life and character , conscientiously studied and thor- oughly understood by coming generations ...
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... President , General George Washington , took his solemn oath " to the best of his ability to preserve , protect and defend the Con- stitution of the United States , " and thereby became Commander - in - Chief of the army and navy ...
... President , General George Washington , took his solemn oath " to the best of his ability to preserve , protect and defend the Con- stitution of the United States , " and thereby became Commander - in - Chief of the army and navy ...
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... President and all appointed over them , for they are the very instru- ments provided by the Constitution to enable him to protect and defend it whenever force is neces- sary ; and no government on earth has yet been devised , but that ...
... President and all appointed over them , for they are the very instru- ments provided by the Constitution to enable him to protect and defend it whenever force is neces- sary ; and no government on earth has yet been devised , but that ...
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... President marked the most unique event of modern times in the development of free institutions . The occasion was not an accident but a result . It was the culmination of the working- out by mighty forces through many centuries of the ...
... President marked the most unique event of modern times in the development of free institutions . The occasion was not an accident but a result . It was the culmination of the working- out by mighty forces through many centuries of the ...
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