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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ... - Page 255
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The Science and Art of Elocution and Oratory: Containing Specimens of the ...

Worthy Putnam - Elocution - 1858 - 420 pages
...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, sir, 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 of...
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The American Orator's Own Book

Orators - 1859 - 370 pages
...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray head should secure him from insult. Much more, sir, 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 of...
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Anecdote Biography

John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 pages
...either 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...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 New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution

John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insult. 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, and...
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Readings from the best authors, ed. by A.H. Bryce, Issue 10

Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...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 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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Grammar of English grammars; or Advanced manual of English grammar and language

Jacob Lowres - 1863 - 338 pages
...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him irom insult. Much more, Sir, 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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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult. 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, and...
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The High School Speaker: A Collection of Declamations, Poetic Pieces and ...

John Celivergos Zachos - 1873 - 348 pages
...not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, sir, 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 can not enjoy, and spends the remains of...
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The model elocutionist, by A. Comstock and J.A. Mair

Andrew Comstock - 1874 - 286 pages
...abhorrence or contempt', | and deserves not thai his grey head' 1 should secure Aim from insult. | Much more is he to be abhorred, | who, as he has advanced...receded from virtue, | and becomes more wicked with less temptation : | who prostitutes Aimself for money which he cannoi enjoy, | and spends the remains...
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The Elocutionist: A Collection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, Peculiarly ...

James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1874 - 458 pages
...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 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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