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The Speeches of Charles Phillips, Esq: Delivered at the Bar, and on Various ... - Page 179
by Charles Phillips - 1821 - 249 pages
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Readings from the Best Authors

Archibald Hamilton Bryce - English literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold,...most extraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of the world, ever rose, or reigned, or fcll. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened...
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The Sixth Progressive Reader, Or Oratorical Class-book: With a Treatise on ...

Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 pages
...Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his owr. originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive...every touch of interest, marked the outline of this ex: 'aordinary character — the most extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this world ever...
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The High School Speaker: A Collection of Declamations, Poetic Pieces and ...

John Celivergos Zachos - 1873 - 348 pages
...hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. A mind, bold, independent, and decisive,—a will, despotic in its dictates,— an energy that...interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character,—the most extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned,...
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Sanders' Rhetorical, Or, Union Sixth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of ...

Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1876 - 622 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptered hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind, bold,...annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. "2. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledge...
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The Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet, Volume 1

1876 - 732 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar-he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in tho solitude of his own originality. A mind, bold, independent,...annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. 1'lung mto life in the midst of a revolution that quick enerl every energy of a people who acknowledge...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical ..., Volume 6

William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1867 - 498 pages
...pliable to every touch of interest', marked the outlines of this extraodinary character^: this aiost extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this world, ever rose', or reigned', or fell\ 2. Flung into life, in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged...
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The modern reader and speaker

David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold,...most extraordinary perhaps, that, in the annals of the world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life in the midst of a Revolution that quietened...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in vޡ ru ~ M ^B= ,\ Pʝ 4t- O V @rv 'k {, e v sZ > nnd a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character,...
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The Science of Elocution

S. S. Hamill - Elocution - 1881 - 402 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptered hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold,...conscience pliable to every touch of interest marked the outliue of this extraordinary character, the most extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this...
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Advanced Reader, Specially Prepared to Elicit Thought and to Facilitate ...

Christian Brothers - Readers - 1884 - 516 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapped up in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold,...despotic in its dictates, an energy that distanced expo lii ion, and a conscience pliable,to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary...
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