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 páginas |
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... Heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She brought an angel down . Emphasis likewise serves to express some particular mean- ing not immediately arising from the words , but depending upon the intention of the speaker , or some ...
... Heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She brought an angel down . Emphasis likewise serves to express some particular mean- ing not immediately arising from the words , but depending upon the intention of the speaker , or some ...
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... Heaven . This wayof think- ing is not peculiar to me , but is the opinion of all the moral sense , and of nine - tenths of the intelligence of that section , from which I come . Some who are here from that quarter , some of the ...
... Heaven . This wayof think- ing is not peculiar to me , but is the opinion of all the moral sense , and of nine - tenths of the intelligence of that section , from which I come . Some who are here from that quarter , some of the ...
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... Heavens to consider this as no common case . Let me call upon you to feel yourselves entrusted with one of the most important decisions that has ever yet been submitted to any court in any country . By your decision is every man to know ...
... Heavens to consider this as no common case . Let me call upon you to feel yourselves entrusted with one of the most important decisions that has ever yet been submitted to any court in any country . By your decision is every man to know ...
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... Heavens . " " Piety has found Friends in the friends of science , and true prayer Has flow'd from lips , wet with Castalian dews . Such was thy wisdom , Newton , childlike sage ! Sagacious reader of the works of God , And in his word ...
... Heavens . " " Piety has found Friends in the friends of science , and true prayer Has flow'd from lips , wet with Castalian dews . Such was thy wisdom , Newton , childlike sage ! Sagacious reader of the works of God , And in his word ...
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... Heaven . I wish indeed to except our own , but I cannot even do that , till it shall be purged of those abuses which , though they obscure and deform the surface , have not as yet , thank God , destroved the vital nerts . Speech of JOHN ...
... Heaven . I wish indeed to except our own , but I cannot even do that , till it shall be purged of those abuses which , though they obscure and deform the surface , have not as yet , thank God , destroved the vital nerts . Speech of JOHN ...
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Aaron Burr affection American arms army believe BENJAMIN RUSH bill blessings blood bosom Britain British Brutus calamity Canada cation cause character charity Christ Christian citizens command commerce constitution corrupted danger death defend Demosthenes distress dreadful duty earth enemy eternal exertions Extract eyes fame feel FISHER AMES force France friends gentlemen give glory Gospel hand happiness hath heart Heaven honour hope human interest invasion invasion of Canada Ireland Jacobins justice libel liberty look Lord mankind maritime rights means measures ment militia mind nation nature never object opinion party passions patriots peace political prayers present principles religion republican revolution ruin sans-culottes scene sentiments sion soul speak speaker spect Speech spirit suffering sword Syph Syphax tears tence thee thing thou tion truth virtue voice Washington whole William Cobbett words
Pasajes populares
Página 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!
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...