Five-minute Declamations, Volume 1Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1885 |
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... force . The graces taught in the schools , the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech , shock and disgust men when their own lives and the fate of their wives , their children , and their country hang on [ II ]
... force . The graces taught in the schools , the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech , shock and disgust men when their own lives and the fate of their wives , their children , and their country hang on [ II ]
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... live - oaks , farther to the South , till it re- sounded among the New England settlements beyond the Savannah . The Blue Ridge took up the voice and made it heard from one end to the other of the valley of Virginia . The Alleghanies ...
... live - oaks , farther to the South , till it re- sounded among the New England settlements beyond the Savannah . The Blue Ridge took up the voice and made it heard from one end to the other of the valley of Virginia . The Alleghanies ...
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Walter K. Fobes. WASHINGTON'S SWORD AND FRANKLIN'S STAFF . 37 men , whose lives belong to the eighteenth century of Christendom , have left a deeper impression of themselves upon the age in which they lived , and upon all after - time ...
Walter K. Fobes. WASHINGTON'S SWORD AND FRANKLIN'S STAFF . 37 men , whose lives belong to the eighteenth century of Christendom , have left a deeper impression of themselves upon the age in which they lived , and upon all after - time ...
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... live or die , survive or perish , I give my hand and my heart to this vote . It is true , in- deed , that , in the beginning , we aimed not at inde- pendence , but there's a Divinity that shapes our ends . The injustice of England has ...
... live or die , survive or perish , I give my hand and my heart to this vote . It is true , in- deed , that , in the beginning , we aimed not at inde- pendence , but there's a Divinity that shapes our ends . The injustice of England has ...
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... live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good . We may die , die colonists , die slaves , die , it may be , ignominiously and on the scaffold . Be it so ! Be it so ! If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall ...
... live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good . We may die , die colonists , die slaves , die , it may be , ignominiously and on the scaffold . Be it so ! Be it so ! If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall ...
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