Five-minute Declamations, Volume 1Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1885 |
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... future State , and bound across the unknown sea ; I behold it pursuing , with a thousand misgivings , the uncertain , tedious voyage . Suns rise and set , weeks and months pass , and winter surprises them on the deep , but brings them ...
... future State , and bound across the unknown sea ; I behold it pursuing , with a thousand misgivings , the uncertain , tedious voyage . Suns rise and set , weeks and months pass , and winter surprises them on the deep , but brings them ...
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... future , seconded the resolution in a speech so full of impassioned fervor , thrilling eloquence , and prophetic power , that Congress was carried away before it , as by a resistless wave . The die was cast , and every man was now ...
... future , seconded the resolution in a speech so full of impassioned fervor , thrilling eloquence , and prophetic power , that Congress was carried away before it , as by a resistless wave . The die was cast , and every man was now ...
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... future time may approach them . But neither of these sources of emotion equals the power with which great moral examples affect the mind . When sublime virtues cease to be abstrac- tions , when they become embodied in human char- acter ...
... future time may approach them . But neither of these sources of emotion equals the power with which great moral examples affect the mind . When sublime virtues cease to be abstrac- tions , when they become embodied in human char- acter ...
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... future greatness . He has taught us to maintain this Union , not by seeking to enlarge the powers of the government , on the one hand , nor by surrendering them , on the other ; but by an ad- ministration of them at once firm and ...
... future greatness . He has taught us to maintain this Union , not by seeking to enlarge the powers of the government , on the one hand , nor by surrendering them , on the other ; but by an ad- ministration of them at once firm and ...
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... future career , and as in that character de- manding of us all to account for our conduct , as political men , or as private citizens , how should he answer him , who has ventured to talk of disunion and dismemberment ? Or how should he ...
... future career , and as in that character de- manding of us all to account for our conduct , as political men , or as private citizens , how should he answer him , who has ventured to talk of disunion and dismemberment ? Or how should he ...
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