Forensic Declamations, for the Use of Schools and CollegesAbraham Howry Espenshade Silver, Burdett, and Company, 1901 - 202 pages |
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... voice , and the numerous details that the average student can master only by conscious effort and constant practice . The selections that have been chosen are mostly short , varying from two to six minutes in length . A short ...
... voice , and the numerous details that the average student can master only by conscious effort and constant practice . The selections that have been chosen are mostly short , varying from two to six minutes in length . A short ...
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... roused all Paris to demand the head of Louis ; and lashed into fury or hushed into repose acres of wild peasantry , as the voice of O'Connell rose or fell . COLUMBUS 3 COLUMBUS CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW An extract from the 2 FORENSIC DÉCLAMATIONS.
... roused all Paris to demand the head of Louis ; and lashed into fury or hushed into repose acres of wild peasantry , as the voice of O'Connell rose or fell . COLUMBUS 3 COLUMBUS CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW An extract from the 2 FORENSIC DÉCLAMATIONS.
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... voice of gratitude and praise for all the blessings which have been showered upon mankind by his adventure is limited to no language , but is uttered in every tongue . Neither marble nor brass can fitly form his statue . Continents are ...
... voice of gratitude and praise for all the blessings which have been showered upon mankind by his adventure is limited to no language , but is uttered in every tongue . Neither marble nor brass can fitly form his statue . Continents are ...
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... voice of the storm howls through the rigging . The laboring masts seem strain- ing from their base ; the dismal sound of the pumps is heard ; the ship leaps , as it were , madly from billow to billow ; the ocean breaks and settles with ...
... voice of the storm howls through the rigging . The laboring masts seem strain- ing from their base ; the dismal sound of the pumps is heard ; the ship leaps , as it were , madly from billow to billow ; the ocean breaks and settles with ...
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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 rifle- men on the Holston , the Watauga ...
... 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 rifle- men on the Holston , the Watauga ...
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Page 87 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Page 71 - Liberty first, and union afterwards," — but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds as they float over the sea and over the land and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment dear to every true American heart — " Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable ! " THE SOUTH AND THE UNION ROBERT Y.
Page 18 - Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending...
Page 37 - Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads; the same ocean rolla at your feet; but all else, how changed!
Page 88 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayer of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom...
Page 19 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Page 17 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.
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Page 93 - While I am very anxious that any great disaster or the capture of our men in great numbers shall be avoided, I know these points are less likely to escape your attention than they would be mine. If there is anything wanting which is within my power to give, do not fail to let me know it. And now with a brave army and a just cause, may God sustain you.
Page 140 - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.