Five-minute Declamations, Volume 1Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1885 |
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... hope , freighted with the prospects of a 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 ...
... hope , freighted with the prospects of a 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 ...
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... hope , a ruined enterprise , and a broken heart aching in its last moments , at the recollection of the loved and left , beyond the sea ? Was it some , or all of these united , that hurried this forsaken company to their melan- cities ...
... hope , a ruined enterprise , and a broken heart aching in its last moments , at the recollection of the loved and left , beyond the sea ? Was it some , or all of these united , that hurried this forsaken company to their melan- cities ...
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... hope yielded to fear . But at length , at two o'clock , the door opened , and a voice ex- claimed , " It has passed . " The word leaped like lightning from lip to lip , followed by huzzas that shook the building . The boy - sentinel ...
... hope yielded to fear . But at length , at two o'clock , the door opened , and a voice ex- claimed , " It has passed . " The word leaped like lightning from lip to lip , followed by huzzas that shook the building . The boy - sentinel ...
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... hope of any future beneficial reunion . Of all the presumptions indulged by presumptuous man , that is one of the rashest which looks for repeated and favorable op- portunities for the deliberate establishment of a united government ...
... hope of any future beneficial reunion . Of all the presumptions indulged by presumptuous man , that is one of the rashest which looks for repeated and favorable op- portunities for the deliberate establishment of a united government ...
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Walter K. Fobes. fear ; and without it , nothing to hope . The senti- ment is just , and its momentous truth should sol- emnly impress the whole country . If we might regard our country as personated in the spirit of Washington , if we ...
Walter K. Fobes. fear ; and without it , nothing to hope . The senti- ment is just , and its momentous truth should sol- emnly impress the whole country . If we might regard our country as personated in the spirit of Washington , if we ...
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