Modern Eloquence, Volume 12Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1903 |
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Page 438
... believe what you say you are only a play - actor after all — a poor mummer reciting your own lines . You had far better be a professional actor - that will , at least , insure you excellent lines to declaim . To effect anything ; to ...
... believe what you say you are only a play - actor after all — a poor mummer reciting your own lines . You had far better be a professional actor - that will , at least , insure you excellent lines to declaim . To effect anything ; to ...
Page 448
... believe the colored troops held Florida at the last accounts . Now , then , let us see to what the rebellion is reduced . It is reduced to the remainder of Virginia , part of North and South Carolina , all of Georgia , Alabama , and ...
... believe the colored troops held Florida at the last accounts . Now , then , let us see to what the rebellion is reduced . It is reduced to the remainder of Virginia , part of North and South Carolina , all of Georgia , Alabama , and ...
Page 450
... believe the Emperor of China will buy many ships of Great Britain until they bring back the silk gowns they stole out of his palace at Pekin . And even now , I say that our commerce is being preyed upon by ships in the hands of the ...
... believe the Emperor of China will buy many ships of Great Britain until they bring back the silk gowns they stole out of his palace at Pekin . And even now , I say that our commerce is being preyed upon by ships in the hands of the ...
Page 455
... believe that there are amongst us such men as these , lineal descendants of Judas Iscariot , intermarried with the race of Benedict Arnold . It has shown me a great danger with which we are threatened , and I call upon all true men to ...
... believe that there are amongst us such men as these , lineal descendants of Judas Iscariot , intermarried with the race of Benedict Arnold . It has shown me a great danger with which we are threatened , and I call upon all true men to ...
Page 472
... them by pronouncing eulogies on it . Besides , this cry of Union comes commonly from those whom we cannot believe to be sincere . It usually comes 1 JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN Photogravure after an engraving from our 472 JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN.
... them by pronouncing eulogies on it . Besides , this cry of Union comes commonly from those whom we cannot believe to be sincere . It usually comes 1 JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN Photogravure after an engraving from our 472 JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN.
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