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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...Shall we try argument ? \ Sir, | we have' been trying that for the last ten years'. | Have we any thing new to offer upon the subject ? \ Nothing. | We have...What terms shall we find, which have not been already exAausted ?b | Let us not, I beseech you, sir, | deceive ourselves longer. | Sir, | we have done every...
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The American Manual, Or, New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - 1841 - 316 pages
...last ten years. Have ws any thing new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject tip in every light of which it is capable ; but it has...shall we find, which have not been already exhausted? 7. " Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. \Vre have done every thing that could...
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The School Reader: Fourth Book. Containing Instructions in the Elementary ...

Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 pages
...them ? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we any thing new to offer upon the subject ? Nothing. We have held...shall we find, which have not been already exhausted ? 6. Let us not, I beseech you, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done every thing that could...
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The United States Speaker, a Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution ...

John Epy Lovell - 1843 - 524 pages
...them ? Shall we try argument ? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we any thing new to offer upon the subject ? Nothing. We have held...you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done every thing that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned — we...
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we any thing new to offer upon the subject 1 Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light...been already exhausted ? Let us not, I beseech you, deceive ourselves longer. implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors

John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...them ? Shall we try argument ? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we any thing new to offer upon the subject ? Nothing. We have held...resort to entreaty and humble supplication ? What terras shall we find, which have not been already exhausted ? Let us not, I beseech you, deceive ouiselves...
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The Library of American Biography, Volume 11

Jared Sparks - 1844 - 434 pages
...forging. And what have we to oppose to them ? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer...ourselves longer. Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned ; we have remonstrated ; we...
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The United States Speaker: A Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution ...

John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 pages
...them ? Shall we try argument i Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we any thing new to offer upon the subject ? Nothing. We have held...you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done every thing that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned — we...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors : to ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...them ? Shall we try argument ? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we any thing new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held...which have not been already exhausted ? Let us not, I beseech'you, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done every thing that could be done, to avert the...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...call for 40 we try argument ? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we any thing new to offer upon the subject ? Nothing. We have held...What terms shall we find, which have not been already ex5 hausted ? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done everything...
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