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staggered back, I then turned and fled.

(The fate of Napoleon was writ. The star that had blazed so brightly over the world went down in blood; and the Bravest of the Brave had fought his last battle.)

40. REGULUS TO THE CARTHAGINIANS.

(Page 216, Orator's Manual.)

E. Kellogg.

41. SPARTACUS TO THE GLADIATORS. - E. Kellogg.
(Page 219, Orator's Manual.)

42. SPARTACUS TO THE ROMAN ENVOYS.
(Page 222, Orator's Manual.)

43. MARULLUS TO THE ROMAN POPULACE. - Shakspeare.
(Page 224, Orator's Manual.)

44. WILLIAM TELL ON SWITZERLAND.-J. S. Knowles.

(Page 225, Orator's Manual.)

45. WILLIAM TELL AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.-J. S. Knowles. (Page 226, Orator's Manual.)

46. DANGEROUS LEGISLATION, 1849.-J. McDowell.

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her | ignominiously | upon the cheek? In your own early day of deepest extremity and distréss- the day of the Boston | Port Bill – when your beautiful | capital was threatened with extinction, and England was collecting her gigantic | power to sweep your liberties |

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awáy, Virgínia, caring for no | ódds and counting no | cóst, bravely,|

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generously, instantly, | stepped forth for your deliverance. dressing her through the justice | of your cause | and the agonies |

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(p) But in all thís | she felt and knew that she was more than your political | ally-more than your political friend. She felt and knew that she was your near, | natural born | relation—such in virtue

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higher attributes of a congenial and kindred nature. Do not be startled at the idea of common | quàlities between the American

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able will, differently dirécted, is the pervasive and màster cement in

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the character of both. (f) Nourished by the same | spírit, sharing as twin- | sisters in the struggle of the heritage of the same | revolútion, what is there in any demand of national | faith, or of constitu

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of the younger | Pitt, and of our own elder | Âdams, who, in the

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all our discord will be removed from among us. (f) Let gentlemen be adjured by the weal of this and coming ages, by our own and our children's good, by all that we love or that we look for in the progress and the glories of our land, to leave this entire subject, with every accountability it may impose, every remedy it may require, every accumulation of difficulty or degree of pressure it may reach-to leave it all to the interest, to the wisdom, and to the conscience, of those upon whom the providence of God and the constitution of their country have cast it.)

(pp) It is said, sir, that at some dark hour of our revolutionary cóntest, when army after army had been lost; when, dispirited, beaten, wretched, the heart of the boldest and faithfulest díed within them, and áll, for an instant, seemed cónquered, except the unconquerable soul of our father-chiéf,—(p) it is said that at that móment,

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measure I have endeavored to suppórt, help me to plant it upon this

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47. PUBLIC OPINION AND THE SWORD.-T. B. Macaulay.
(Page 229, Orator's Manual.)

48. A REMINISCENCE OF LEXINGTON.- Theodore Parker.
(Page 230, Orator's Manual.)

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215. Elaborative Style. The long sentence and climax. Terminal Stress (§ 101) gliding into Median (§ 102) wherever the speaker begins to feel the Drift (§ 154) or balance of the Rhetoric. End each climax with the gradual descent in pitch indicated in §§ 83-85. The first two examples contain series of preliminary clauses ending with downward inflections; in the other examples these end with upward inflections.

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50. EXAMPLES FOR IRELAND.-T. F. Meagher.

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