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The American Preceptor: Being a New Selection of Lessons for Reading and ... - Page 129
by Caleb Bingham - 1801 - 228 pages
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The Tourist: A Literary and Anti-slavery Journal, Volume 1

Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults. Much more is he to be abhorred who, as he has advanced in age,...receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation — who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains...
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The English Orator: a Selection of Pieces for Reading & Recitation

James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...abhorrence or contempt; and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults. Much more is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and become more wicked with less temptation; who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...abhorrence or contempt'; and deserves not that his gray head should screen him from insults'. Much more is he to be abhorred', who', as he has advanced in...receded from virtue', and becomes more wicked', with less temptation': — who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy', and spends the remains...
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The United States Speaker: A Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution ...

John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...either abhorrence or contempt ; and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred — who, as he...receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation : who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of...
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The Elocutionist: Consisting of Declamations and Readings in Prose and ...

Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults. Much more is he to be abhorred—who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation : who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remainder...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 9

Englishmen - 1836 - 288 pages
...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults. Much more is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has seceded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; who prostitutes himself for money...
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The Moral and Intellectual School Book: Containing Instructions for Reading ...

William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults. Much more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and become more wicked, with less temptation ; who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy,...
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The History of England, Volume 10

Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1840 - 446 pages
...obstinacy to stupidity, deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult ; and much more is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and who deliberately devotes the remnant of his life to the ruin of his country." Yet we find him adopting,...
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...abhorrence or contempt', | and deserves not that his grey head' | should secure Aim from insult. | Much more is he to be abhorred, | who, as he has advanced in...receded from virtue, | and becomes more wicked with less temptation : | who prostitutes Aimself for money which he cannot enjoy', | and spends the remains...
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An Essay on Elocution, Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...deserves not that his gray head should screen him from insults'. Much more is he to be abJiorred', who', as he has advanced in age', has receded from virtue', and becomes more wicked', with less temptation'; — who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy', and spends the remains...
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