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 Action |
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... thing as speaking loud ; and not observing , that whether a speaker shall be heard or not , depends more upon the dis- tinctness and force with which he utters his words , than upon the height , at which he pitches his voice . But it is ...
... thing as speaking loud ; and not observing , that whether a speaker shall be heard or not , depends more upon the dis- tinctness and force with which he utters his words , than upon the height , at which he pitches his voice . But it is ...
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... thing else , was the new test to which we are to put this government . We are about to ascertain by actual experiment , how far our republican institutions are cal B culated to stand the shock of war ; and whether CHAPTER I ...
... thing else , was the new test to which we are to put this government . We are about to ascertain by actual experiment , how far our republican institutions are cal B culated to stand the shock of war ; and whether CHAPTER I ...
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... things is better than the present ; inquire of the western people why their crops are not equal to what they were in former years ; they will an- swer that industry has no stimulus left , since their sur- plus products have no markets ...
... things is better than the present ; inquire of the western people why their crops are not equal to what they were in former years ; they will an- swer that industry has no stimulus left , since their sur- plus products have no markets ...
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... thing or nothing . " Our people will not submit to be taxed for this war of conquest and dominion . The government of the United States is not calculated to wage offensive foreign war -it was instituted for the common defence and ...
... thing or nothing . " Our people will not submit to be taxed for this war of conquest and dominion . The government of the United States is not calculated to wage offensive foreign war -it was instituted for the common defence and ...
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... thing in a pecuniary view ? No , sir . Look at your treasury reports . You now receive only six millions of revenue annually ; and this amount must be diminished in the same proportion as the rigorous execution of the or- ders in ...
... thing in a pecuniary view ? No , sir . Look at your treasury reports . You now receive only six millions of revenue annually ; and this amount must be diminished in the same proportion as the rigorous execution of the or- ders in ...
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Page 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!
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...