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 sidor |
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... Christian- ity , and my firm belief in the Holy Gospel is by no means owing to the prejudices of education , but it arises from the fullest reflections of my riper years and understand- ing . It forms , at this moment , the great ...
... Christian- ity , and my firm belief in the Holy Gospel is by no means owing to the prejudices of education , but it arises from the fullest reflections of my riper years and understand- ing . It forms , at this moment , the great ...
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... Christianity are many , but it belongs to the few that are wise to correct their credulity . Belief is an act of reason ... Christian ! Newton whose mind bursts forth from the fetters , cast by nature upon our finite conceptions - Newton ...
... Christianity are many , but it belongs to the few that are wise to correct their credulity . Belief is an act of reason ... Christian ! Newton whose mind bursts forth from the fetters , cast by nature upon our finite conceptions - Newton ...
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... Christian : Locke , whose office it was to detect the errors of think- ing , by going up to the fountains of thought ... Christian dispensation , which has been , and will be , in all ages , a subject of the highest reverence and ...
... Christian : Locke , whose office it was to detect the errors of think- ing , by going up to the fountains of thought ... Christian dispensation , which has been , and will be , in all ages , a subject of the highest reverence and ...
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... Christian , or for the ear of a court of justice , Milton made the grand conclusion of his Paradise Lost , the rest from his finished labours , and the ultimate hope , expec tation , and glory of the world : - " A virgin is his mother ...
... Christian , or for the ear of a court of justice , Milton made the grand conclusion of his Paradise Lost , the rest from his finished labours , and the ultimate hope , expec tation , and glory of the world : - " A virgin is his mother ...
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... Christian religion : afterwards , like the ancient Spartans , or the fraternity at Kilmainham , they might dine altogether in a large hall . Good Heaven ! what a sight to see them feeding in pub- lic upon public viands , and talking of ...
... Christian religion : afterwards , like the ancient Spartans , or the fraternity at Kilmainham , they might dine altogether in a large hall . Good Heaven ! what a sight to see them feeding in pub- lic upon public viands , and talking of ...
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Sida 303 - 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!
Sida 316 - 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!
Sida 76 - ... 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.
Sida 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Sida 322 - 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.
Sida 313 - 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...
Sida 316 - 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...
Sida 314 - 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...