The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from Ancient and Modern Authors : Adapted for Exercises in ElocutionRichardson, Lord, and Holbrook, 1831 - 344 Seiten |
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... nature . I wish to see these states rap- idly ascending to that rank , which their natural advantages authorize them to hold among the nations of the earth . Cast your eyes , Sir , over this extensive country . Observe the salubrity of ...
... nature . I wish to see these states rap- idly ascending to that rank , which their natural advantages authorize them to hold among the nations of the earth . Cast your eyes , Sir , over this extensive country . Observe the salubrity of ...
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... nature , THEIR silence , the contrast which THEY displayed to the rest of their species , proceeded from the greater depth of their affliction ; they said the less because they felt the more ! Oh ! talk of hypocrisy after this ! -Most ...
... nature , THEIR silence , the contrast which THEY displayed to the rest of their species , proceeded from the greater depth of their affliction ; they said the less because they felt the more ! Oh ! talk of hypocrisy after this ! -Most ...
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... nature swallowed up that famous island , that exhaustless store- house of great examples , that classic ground of the friends of liberty ? But surely you are mistaken : England is still flourishing for the eternal instruction of the ...
... nature swallowed up that famous island , that exhaustless store- house of great examples , that classic ground of the friends of liberty ? But surely you are mistaken : England is still flourishing for the eternal instruction of the ...
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... nature of hearing to our minds . How sound affects that organization , and how it communicates with the mind is incomprehensible . L 76. The commonly received theory of hearing is very unsatisfactory . Particles of air , it is said ...
... nature of hearing to our minds . How sound affects that organization , and how it communicates with the mind is incomprehensible . L 76. The commonly received theory of hearing is very unsatisfactory . Particles of air , it is said ...
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... nature , hitherto un- known , which is sound ; as there may be something , which is vision ? That human ingenuity has gone no further as yet , in the philosophy of sound and vision , is no reproach to it . Looking back on its inventions ...
... nature , hitherto un- known , which is sound ; as there may be something , which is vision ? That human ingenuity has gone no further as yet , in the philosophy of sound and vision , is no reproach to it . Looking back on its inventions ...
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Seite 278 - What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.
Seite 90 - Strike ! till the last armed foe expires ! Strike ! for your altars and your fires ! Strike ! for the green graves of your sires ; God, and your native land...
Seite 321 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak— -unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house ? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction.
Seite 322 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission .and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it come ! ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! ! ! "It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace — but there is no peace.
Seite 187 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel. His virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Seite 92 - How beautiful this night ! The balmiest sigh Which vernal Zephyrs breathe in Evening's ear Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene. Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which Love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
Seite 148 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. It is true, indeed, that in the beginning we aimed not at independence. But there's a divinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of England has driven us to arms; and, blinded to her own interest for our good, she has obstinately persisted, till independence is now within our grasp.
Seite 79 - THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land ! The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam ; And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream. The merry homes of England ! Around their hearths by night, What gladsome looks of household love Meet in the ruddy light ! There woman's voice flows forth in song, Or childhood's tale is told, Or lips move tunefully along Some glorious page...
Seite 186 - ... restores him to health, — on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal, — on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice, — on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride, — at bed or board, couchant or levant, — we must pay.
Seite 302 - Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high career : Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell ! The sun went down, nor ceased the carnage there ! Tumultuous murder shook the midnight air ; On Prague's proud arch...