The Book of Eloquence: A Collection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from the Most Orators and Poets; Intended as Exercises for Declamation in Colleges and SchoolsMills, Crandall & Moseley, 1852 - 452 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 21
... Tell them your choice is also made . Tell them , with the illustrious Roman orator , you would rather be in the wrong with Plato , than in the right with Epicurus . Tell them that a mother in Sparta would have rather seen her son ...
... Tell them your choice is also made . Tell them , with the illustrious Roman orator , you would rather be in the wrong with Plato , than in the right with Epicurus . Tell them that a mother in Sparta would have rather seen her son ...
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... tell him , that his scheme of a perfect government , beautiful as he conceives it to be , though often tried , has invariably failed , and has always ran , when- ever tried , through the same uniform process of faction , corruption ...
... tell him , that his scheme of a perfect government , beautiful as he conceives it to be , though often tried , has invariably failed , and has always ran , when- ever tried , through the same uniform process of faction , corruption ...
الصفحة 27
... tell him that he will find in the opposite ranks , under the flag of liberty , spirits as gal- lant as his own ; and that experience will teach him , that it is infinitely easier to carry on a war of legislative exaction , by bills and ...
... tell him that he will find in the opposite ranks , under the flag of liberty , spirits as gal- lant as his own ; and that experience will teach him , that it is infinitely easier to carry on a war of legislative exaction , by bills and ...
الصفحة 37
... tell these gentlemen there is no retreat — it is cut off — there is no retreat , even as tedious and painful as that conducted by Xenophon . There is no Anabasis for us - and if there was , where is our Xenophon ? I do not feel lightly ...
... tell these gentlemen there is no retreat — it is cut off — there is no retreat , even as tedious and painful as that conducted by Xenophon . There is no Anabasis for us - and if there was , where is our Xenophon ? I do not feel lightly ...
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... tell them , wher- ever an Englishman might travel , shame would stick to him : he would disown his country . You would exclaim , England , proud of your wealth , and arrogant in the possession of power , blush for these distinctions ...
... tell them , wher- ever an Englishman might travel , shame would stick to him : he would disown his country . You would exclaim , England , proud of your wealth , and arrogant in the possession of power , blush for these distinctions ...
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