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 sider |
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... friend of Demosthenes once asked him what was the first requisite in forming the orator ; he replied , action . He then inquired what was the second ; and was answered , action : —and what was the third ; and again answered , action ...
... friend of Demosthenes once asked him what was the first requisite in forming the orator ; he replied , action . He then inquired what was the second ; and was answered , action : —and what was the third ; and again answered , action ...
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... thority of their commissions . " " They have captured in the very entrance of our har- bours , as well as on the high seas , not only the vessels of our friends coming to trade with us , but our 20 AMERICAN ORATOR . - RANDOLPH .
... thority of their commissions . " " They have captured in the very entrance of our har- bours , as well as on the high seas , not only the vessels of our friends coming to trade with us , but our 20 AMERICAN ORATOR . - RANDOLPH .
Side 21
... friends coming to trade with us , but our own also . They have carried them off under pretence of legal adju- dication , but not daring to approach a court of justice , they have plundered and sunk them by the way , or in ob- scure ...
... friends coming to trade with us , but our own also . They have carried them off under pretence of legal adju- dication , but not daring to approach a court of justice , they have plundered and sunk them by the way , or in ob- scure ...
Side 23
... friend the French emperor stands in the way of its repeal , " and as we cannot go too far in making sacrifices to him , who has given such demonstration of his love for the Americans , we must , in point of fact , become parties " Who ...
... friend the French emperor stands in the way of its repeal , " and as we cannot go too far in making sacrifices to him , who has given such demonstration of his love for the Americans , we must , in point of fact , become parties " Who ...
Side 24
... friends to their country deprecate the success of our arms against the only power that holds in check the arch - enemy of mankind . In The committee have outstripped the executive . designating the power against whom this force was to ...
... friends to their country deprecate the success of our arms against the only power that holds in check the arch - enemy of mankind . In The committee have outstripped the executive . designating the power against whom this force was to ...
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Side 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!
Side 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!
Side 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.
Side 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...