The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American Authors, of the Most Admired Specimens of Congressional, Forensic, Pulpit and Popular Eloquence, with Dialogues and Poetical Extracts, Adapted to Public Recitation : and an Introduction, Embracing the Principle Rules Relating to Delivery and ActionPublished and sold by Daniel Fenton, Thomas T. Stiles, printer, 1815 - 324 ページ |
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... ruin irretrievable , and that we are lost ir- recoverably . But , sir , while there is yet life , there is still hope . I will not , must not , dare not , abandon the country . If deserted by its true friends now , it will sink so low ...
... ruin irretrievable , and that we are lost ir- recoverably . But , sir , while there is yet life , there is still hope . I will not , must not , dare not , abandon the country . If deserted by its true friends now , it will sink so low ...
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... ruin ; to assist in forging chains for posterity if not for ourselves . I confess , sir , I have the less difficulty in voting sup- plies , and uniting to recover public credit , since the dis- closure made to the house by the President ...
... ruin ; to assist in forging chains for posterity if not for ourselves . I confess , sir , I have the less difficulty in voting sup- plies , and uniting to recover public credit , since the dis- closure made to the house by the President ...
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... ruin of the country . The root of the evil is not this , or that blunder ; but it is the political system of administration , not only in relation to the finances , but to the general policy of the government . It has been tried ...
... ruin of the country . The root of the evil is not this , or that blunder ; but it is the political system of administration , not only in relation to the finances , but to the general policy of the government . It has been tried ...
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... ruins ! surrounded by the loathsome objects of our dis- honour ! Indebted to the vandals for the roof that covers us . The government itself paralyzed , chained down as it were , by the drowsiness that precedes death . And yet ...
... ruins ! surrounded by the loathsome objects of our dis- honour ! Indebted to the vandals for the roof that covers us . The government itself paralyzed , chained down as it were , by the drowsiness that precedes death . And yet ...
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... ruined , and yet those who hold its destinies be happy ! But to revert to the expression already made , that pa- radoxical as it might appear , a measure is more likely to succeed for being contradictory to common sense , and common ...
... ruined , and yet those who hold its destinies be happy ! But to revert to the expression already made , that pa- radoxical as it might appear , a measure is more likely to succeed for being contradictory to common sense , and common ...
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303 ページ - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
316 ページ - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
76 ページ - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
177 ページ - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
322 ページ - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
313 ページ - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gem'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
316 ページ - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
314 ページ - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...