The Student's Speaker: A New Collection of Original and Selected Pieces in Prose, Dialogues, and Poetry : Designed to Furnish Suitable Pieces for Speaking in Schools and at Public Examinations |
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... land of the sleeping sun ; where wild beasts roamed , and were hunted by the red man , the GREAT BEAST lived on the plains and was the terror of all . He was huge as the frowning precipice , cruel as the bloody panther , and swift as ...
... land of the sleeping sun ; where wild beasts roamed , and were hunted by the red man , the GREAT BEAST lived on the plains and was the terror of all . He was huge as the frowning precipice , cruel as the bloody panther , and swift as ...
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... land , and on the burning sands of Africa . THIS life is one great school . From the cradle to the grave we are all scholars . The voices of those we love , the wisdom of past ages , and our own experience are our teachers . Affliction ...
... land , and on the burning sands of Africa . THIS life is one great school . From the cradle to the grave we are all scholars . The voices of those we love , the wisdom of past ages , and our own experience are our teachers . Affliction ...
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... land of genius , and the land of degradation ; of vast resources , and pinching poverty ; of noble deeds and revolting crimes ; of valiant resistance to tyranny , and obsequious submission to usurpation . Ireland , the land of splendid ...
... land of genius , and the land of degradation ; of vast resources , and pinching poverty ; of noble deeds and revolting crimes ; of valiant resistance to tyranny , and obsequious submission to usurpation . Ireland , the land of splendid ...
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... land , he might almost be said to have created . He passed his days in honor and repose , and dying , shed a deep , yet hallowed gloom over a whole continent . The towering monument , or the time - defying mar- ble , are unnecessary to ...
... land , he might almost be said to have created . He passed his days in honor and repose , and dying , shed a deep , yet hallowed gloom over a whole continent . The towering monument , or the time - defying mar- ble , are unnecessary to ...
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... land , in a foreign port , or tossed upon the bounding billows . Truly , if there is aught that is lovely here below , it is Home , sweet Home ! HUMAN ACTIONS . WE see not , in this life , the end of human actions their influence never ...
... land , in a foreign port , or tossed upon the bounding billows . Truly , if there is aught that is lovely here below , it is Home , sweet Home ! HUMAN ACTIONS . WE see not , in this life , the end of human actions their influence never ...
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Page 69 - Sir, he who sees these States, now revolving in harmony around a common centre, and expects- to see them quit their places and fly off without convulsion, may look the next hour to see the heavenly bodies rush from their spheres, and jostle against each other in the realms of space, without causing the wreck of the universe.
Page 68 - I hear with pain, and anguish, and distress the word secession, especially when it falls from the lips of those who are eminently patriotic and known to the country and known all over the world for their political services. Secession!
Page 127 - Brood not on insults or injuries old, For thou art injurious too, — Count not their sum till the total is told, For thou art unkind and untrue : And if all thy harms are forgotten, forgiven, Now mercy with justice is met...
Page 137 - God ! protect my child ¡—The clock strikes three. They're gone, they're gone ! the glimmering spark hath fled ! The wife and child are numbered with the dead. On the cold...
Page 137 - GAMBLER'S WIFE. DARK is the night ! how dark ! no light — no fire ! Cold, on the hearth, the last faint sparks expire ! Shivering she watches by the cradle side For him who pledged her love — last year a bride ! " Hark ! 'tis his footstep ! No — 'tis past ; 'tis gone.
Page 28 - For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty : and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Page 67 - I mean to perform it with fidelity, not without a sense of existing dangers, but not without hope. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for I am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away from the wreck, if wreck there must be, but for the good of the whole and the preservation of...
Page 126 - With the wrong so repented, the wrath will depart, Though scorn on injustice were heaped ; For the best compensation is paid for all ill, When the cheek with contrition is wet, And every one feels it is possible still At once to forgive and forget.