Five-minute Declamations, Volume 1Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1885 |
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... voice like a Scotch song , five thousand men wept . His marvellous voice , its almost incredible power and sweetness , " Even to the verge of that vast audience it went , It played with each wild passion as it went ; Now stirred the ...
... voice like a Scotch song , five thousand men wept . His marvellous voice , its almost incredible power and sweetness , " Even to the verge of that vast audience it went , It played with each wild passion as it went ; Now stirred the ...
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... voice of the storm howls through the rigging , the laboring masts seem strain- ing at their base , the dismal sound of the pumps heard , the ship leaps , as it were , madly from billow to billow , the ocean breaks and settles with en ...
... voice of the storm howls through the rigging , the laboring masts seem strain- ing at their base , the dismal sound of the pumps heard , the ship leaps , as it were , madly from billow to billow , the ocean breaks and settles with en ...
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... voice and made it heard from one end to the other of the valley of Virginia . The Alleghanies , as they listened , opened their barriers that the " loud call " might pass through to the hardy riflemen on the Holston , the Watauga and ...
... voice and made it heard from one end to the other of the valley of Virginia . The Alleghanies , as they listened , opened their barriers that the " loud call " might pass through to the hardy riflemen on the Holston , the Watauga and ...
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... 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 clapped his hands , and shouted to the bell - man , " Ring ! ring ! " The ...
... 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 clapped his hands , and shouted to the bell - man , " Ring ! ring ! " The ...
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... voices bespeak grateful hearts , and a freshened recollection of the virtues of the Father of his Country . And it will be so , in all time to come , so long as public virtue is itself an object of regard . The ingenuous youth of ...
... voices bespeak grateful hearts , and a freshened recollection of the virtues of the Father of his Country . And it will be so , in all time to come , so long as public virtue is itself an object of regard . The ingenuous youth of ...
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