The Book of Oratory: A New Collection of Extracts in Prose, Poetry, and Dialogue, Containing Selections from Distinguised American and English Orators, Divines, and Poets for the Use of Colleges, Academics, and Schools |
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... passed nearly thirty years in the study of oratory under the chief mas- ters of his time . The story of Demosthenes is well known ; and Cicero , Quintilian , Isocrates , Aristotle , and others have left treatises upon the best modes of ...
... passed nearly thirty years in the study of oratory under the chief mas- ters of his time . The story of Demosthenes is well known ; and Cicero , Quintilian , Isocrates , Aristotle , and others have left treatises upon the best modes of ...
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... oppressor . In the dignity of freedom I would have fought upon the threshold of my country , and its enemy should enter only by passing over my lifeless corpse . Am I , who lived but for my country , 22 SELECTIONS IN PROSE . Emmet.
... oppressor . In the dignity of freedom I would have fought upon the threshold of my country , and its enemy should enter only by passing over my lifeless corpse . Am I , who lived but for my country , 22 SELECTIONS IN PROSE . Emmet.
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... passed away , to appeal to your own conscience , and ask of it , Was your charge as it ought to be - impartial and indifferent between the subject and the crown ? My lords , you may deem this language unbecoming in me , and perhaps it ...
... passed away , to appeal to your own conscience , and ask of it , Was your charge as it ought to be - impartial and indifferent between the subject and the crown ? My lords , you may deem this language unbecoming in me , and perhaps it ...
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... passed away . Across the ocean came a pilgrim bark , bearing the seeds of life and death . The former were sown for you ; the latter sprang up in the path of the simple native . Two hundred years have changed the character of a great ...
... passed away . Across the ocean came a pilgrim bark , bearing the seeds of life and death . The former were sown for you ; the latter sprang up in the path of the simple native . Two hundred years have changed the character of a great ...
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... passing cloud even over the bright hour of gaiety , or spread a deeper sadness over the hour of gloom , yet who would exchange it even for the song of pleasure , or the burst of revelry ? No ; there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than ...
... passing cloud even over the bright hour of gaiety , or spread a deeper sadness over the hour of gloom , yet who would exchange it even for the song of pleasure , or the burst of revelry ? No ; there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than ...
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