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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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Classic Selections from the Best Authors

Samuel Silas Curry - Readers - 1888 - 456 pages
...he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. A luind, bold, independent, and decisive, — a will, despotic...ever rose, or reigned, or fell Flung into life in tuu midst of a revolution that quickened exery energy of a people who acknowledge no superior, he commenced...
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship ...

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 472 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold,...the outline of this extraordinary character — the mont extraordinary, perliaps, that, in the annals of this world, over rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung...
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Select Readings and Recitations

Literature - 1897 - 328 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,...perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, reigned, or fell. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people...
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The Crane Reader, Book 5

Readers - 1902 - 424 pages
...sat upon the throne, a sceptered hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. A mind hold, independent, and decisive; a will despotic in its...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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Interpretive Reading

Cora Marsland - Readers - 1902 - 272 pages
...his own originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive—a will, despotic in its dictates—an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience...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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The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...

Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1905 - 872 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind, bold,...extraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, evei rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy...
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William and Mary College Monthly, Volume 11

Little magazines - 1901 - 438 pages
...with the flight of his spirit there passed from this world's stage the " most extraordinary man who in the annals of this world ever rose or reigned or fell." "Re-United.' An old man sits in an old arm chair ; Rocking to and fro. His eyes are dim, and gray his...
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Irish Literature, Volume 8

Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Irish literature - 1904 - 530 pages
...gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptered hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his awful originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive; a will despotic in its dictates; an energy that distances expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this...
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Elson Grammar School Reader: Book four

William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Readers - 1909 - 426 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptered hermit, wrapt in 5 the solitude of his own originality. A mind, bold,...perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, 10 or reigned, or fell. Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of...
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Natural Drills in Expression, with Selections: A Series of Exercises ...

Arthur Edward Phillips - Elocution - 1909 - 394 pages
...magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptered 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 quickened...
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