Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Volume 22 |
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In November of the next year he followed Lord Derby as chancellor of the University of Oxford , and on the return of Disraeli to the premiership in February , 1874 , he again became secretary of state . He was appointed special ...
In November of the next year he followed Lord Derby as chancellor of the University of Oxford , and on the return of Disraeli to the premiership in February , 1874 , he again became secretary of state . He was appointed special ...
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Some years ago , on the occasion of distributing the prizes at University College , London , the Earl of Derby delivered a speech , which no one , old or young , can read without profit or admiration . Part of it I shall quote as ...
Some years ago , on the occasion of distributing the prizes at University College , London , the Earl of Derby delivered a speech , which no one , old or young , can read without profit or admiration . Part of it I shall quote as ...
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... used the following language in 1820 , and apparently so satisfied with its truthfulness that he reproduced it forty years afterward in the address which he delivered at his installation as chancellor of the University ...
... used the following language in 1820 , and apparently so satisfied with its truthfulness that he reproduced it forty years afterward in the address which he delivered at his installation as chancellor of the University ...
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Lord Chatham , at the age of eighteen , when he went to the University of Oxford , forthwith entered upon a severe course of rhetorical training . We are informed by his biographers that he adopted the practice of translating largely ...
Lord Chatham , at the age of eighteen , when he went to the University of Oxford , forthwith entered upon a severe course of rhetorical training . We are informed by his biographers that he adopted the practice of translating largely ...
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His studies at the University of Dublin were severe . Leland , the translator of Demosthenes , used to speak of him as young man more anxious to acquire knowledge than to display it . ” Accordingly , when he had left college he had ...
His studies at the University of Dublin were severe . Leland , the translator of Demosthenes , used to speak of him as young man more anxious to acquire knowledge than to display it . ” Accordingly , when he had left college he had ...
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