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His pocket - knife to the young whittler brings A growing knowledge of material things . ... or build a floating - dock , Or lead forth beauty from a marble block ;Make any thing , in short , for sea or shore , From a child's rattle to ...
His pocket - knife to the young whittler brings A growing knowledge of material things . ... or build a floating - dock , Or lead forth beauty from a marble block ;Make any thing , in short , for sea or shore , From a child's rattle to ...
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My lords , we are all elevated to a degree of importance by it ; the meanest of us will , by means of it , more or less , become the concern of posterity - if we are yet to hope for such a thing , in the present state of the world ...
My lords , we are all elevated to a degree of importance by it ; the meanest of us will , by means of it , more or less , become the concern of posterity - if we are yet to hope for such a thing , in the present state of the world ...
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Mr. Renwick , you have hitherto been a preacher , not a sufferer ; with you the resistance to Charles Stuart's government has been a thing of doctrine , -of no more than doctrine ; with us it has been a consideration of facts .
Mr. Renwick , you have hitherto been a preacher , not a sufferer ; with you the resistance to Charles Stuart's government has been a thing of doctrine , -of no more than doctrine ; with us it has been a consideration of facts .
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| Title | The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises in Elocution |
| Author | Warren P. Edgarton |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Mason Brothers, 1860 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 30 May 2007 |
| Length | 502 pages |
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