Five-minute Declamations, Volume 1Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1885 |
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... never been equalled in modern times , certainly not in English speech . Do you think I am partial ? " I will vouch John Randolph of Roanoke , the Virginia slave- holder , who hated an Irishman almost as much as he hated a Yankee ...
... never been equalled in modern times , certainly not in English speech . Do you think I am partial ? " I will vouch John Randolph of Roanoke , the Virginia slave- holder , who hated an Irishman almost as much as he hated a Yankee ...
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... never surpassed , and no one of them ever equalled O'Connell . Nature intended him for our Demosthenes . Never , since the great Greek , has she sent forth any one so lavishly gifted for his work as a tribune of the peo- ple . In the ...
... never surpassed , and no one of them ever equalled O'Connell . Nature intended him for our Demosthenes . Never , since the great Greek , has she sent forth any one so lavishly gifted for his work as a tribune of the peo- ple . In the ...
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... never returned for the residue . Those who had got away , and those who had not , were in equal distress . A storm of great violence and long duration arose at sea , which not only protracted the voyage , rendered DEPARTURE OF THE ...
... never returned for the residue . Those who had got away , and those who had not , were in equal distress . A storm of great violence and long duration arose at sea , which not only protracted the voyage , rendered DEPARTURE OF THE ...
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... never suffered to droop till it had been borne North and South and East and West , throughout the land . It spread over the bays that receive the Saco and the Penobscot ; its loud reveille broke the rest of the trappers of New Hampshire ...
... never suffered to droop till it had been borne North and South and East and West , throughout the land . It spread over the bays that receive the Saco and the Penobscot ; its loud reveille broke the rest of the trappers of New Hampshire ...
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... never yet been spoken aloud . It was expected that the final vote would be taken without delay , but hour after hour wore on , and no report came from that mysterious hall where the fate of a continent was in suspense . The multitude ...
... never yet been spoken aloud . It was expected that the final vote would be taken without delay , but hour after hour wore on , and no report came from that mysterious hall where the fate of a continent was in suspense . The multitude ...
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