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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... turn ; and of the latter , on which the principal stress is laid , from a circumstance very beautifully related by Quin- tilian ; but which , I am persuaded , is not always correctly understood . The circumstance was this : -A friend of ...
... turn ; and of the latter , on which the principal stress is laid , from a circumstance very beautifully related by Quin- tilian ; but which , I am persuaded , is not always correctly understood . The circumstance was this : -A friend of ...
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... turn- ed up your noses in disdain at the treaties of Mr. Jay and Mr. Monroe ! Will you say to England , " end the war when you please , give us the direct trade in our own pro- duce , we are content . " But what will the merchants of ...
... turn- ed up your noses in disdain at the treaties of Mr. Jay and Mr. Monroe ! Will you say to England , " end the war when you please , give us the direct trade in our own pro- duce , we are content . " But what will the merchants of ...
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... turn , what will you not lose by your mongrel state of peace with G. Britain ? Do you expect to gain any thing in a pecuniary view ? No , sir . Look at your treasury reports . You now receive only six millions of revenue annually ; and ...
... turn , what will you not lose by your mongrel state of peace with G. Britain ? Do you expect to gain any thing in a pecuniary view ? No , sir . Look at your treasury reports . You now receive only six millions of revenue annually ; and ...
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... turn upon a pin . Inca- pable in its nature of being decided upon by technical rules , it is unfit to be discussed in the manner which usually appertains to the forensic habit . It should be regarded as a great question , not only of ...
... turn upon a pin . Inca- pable in its nature of being decided upon by technical rules , it is unfit to be discussed in the manner which usually appertains to the forensic habit . It should be regarded as a great question , not only of ...
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... turn , will protect your commerce . be said , that not one ship of force , built by your hands since the war , yet floats upon the ocean . Turn the cur- rent of your efforts into the channel which national sen- timent has already worn ...
... turn , will protect your commerce . be said , that not one ship of force , built by your hands since the war , yet floats upon the ocean . Turn the cur- rent of your efforts into the channel which national sen- timent has already worn ...
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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...