The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, with Rules for Reading and Speaking |
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... king's hel- met " * -3 . " My friends , my fóllowers , and my children ! the field we have entered , is one from which there is no retreat . " 4. " Gentlemen and knights , -commoners and sòldiers , Edward the Fourth upon his throne ...
... king's hel- met " * -3 . " My friends , my fóllowers , and my children ! the field we have entered , is one from which there is no retreat . " 4. " Gentlemen and knights , -commoners and sòldiers , Edward the Fourth upon his throne ...
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... kings , and the servitude of the people . If asked for its moral object , its admonition , its sentiment , its instruc- tion to mankind , or any high end in its erection , it is silent ; -silent as the millions which lie in the dust at ...
... kings , and the servitude of the people . If asked for its moral object , its admonition , its sentiment , its instruc- tion to mankind , or any high end in its erection , it is silent ; -silent as the millions which lie in the dust at ...
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... king . Englishmen were but slàves , if , in giving crown and sceptre to a mortal like ourselves , we ask not , in return , the kingly vìrtues . ' 99 · 2. " The true enjoyments of a reasonable being do not consist in unbounded indulgence ...
... king . Englishmen were but slàves , if , in giving crown and sceptre to a mortal like ourselves , we ask not , in return , the kingly vìrtues . ' 99 · 2. " The true enjoyments of a reasonable being do not consist in unbounded indulgence ...
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... king Agrippa , because I shall answer for myself this day before thee , concerning all the things whereof I am accused by the Jews : especially , as 1 know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which 5 are among the Jews ...
... king Agrippa , because I shall answer for myself this day before thee , concerning all the things whereof I am accused by the Jews : especially , as 1 know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which 5 are among the Jews ...
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... king Agrippa ! I was not disobedient to 15 the heavenly vision ; but showed first to them of Damascus and at Jerusalem , and through all the coasts of Judea , and then to the Gentiles , that they should repent , and turn to God , and do ...
... king Agrippa ! I was not disobedient to 15 the heavenly vision ; but showed first to them of Damascus and at Jerusalem , and through all the coasts of Judea , and then to the Gentiles , that they should repent , and turn to God , and do ...
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