Famous Orators of the World and Their Best Orations: Containing the Lives of the Greatest Orators and Their Best Orations from Earliest Times to Present Day, with an Account of Place and Time of Delivery of Each Oration and Explanatory Notes on Obscure Passages : Arranged in Eighteen Great Epochs Or Books1902 |
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... Civil War Robert Y. Hayne South Carolina and the Union Daniel Webster The Reply to Hayne 79 80 83 84 The Secret of Murder 88 John C. Calhoun 90 South Carolina and the Union 91 John Quincy Adams 94 A Eulogy of Lafayette 95 Edward Everett ...
... Civil War Robert Y. Hayne South Carolina and the Union Daniel Webster The Reply to Hayne 79 80 83 84 The Secret of Murder 88 John C. Calhoun 90 South Carolina and the Union 91 John Quincy Adams 94 A Eulogy of Lafayette 95 Edward Everett ...
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... Civil War in Ireland 525 Sir Robert Peel . . . 526 The Importance of Classical Education 527 Lord John Russell . 529 The " Rotten Boroughs " of England . Importance of Literary Studies 530 531 Richard L. Sheil . . 533 Irish Aliens and ...
... Civil War in Ireland 525 Sir Robert Peel . . . 526 The Importance of Classical Education 527 Lord John Russell . 529 The " Rotten Boroughs " of England . Importance of Literary Studies 530 531 Richard L. Sheil . . 533 Irish Aliens and ...
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... Civil War ? Men like these would , no doubt , have made their mark under any circumstances , but their fame would have been limited by the lack of oppor- tunity for the display of their special powers , and the history of their ...
... Civil War ? Men like these would , no doubt , have made their mark under any circumstances , but their fame would have been limited by the lack of oppor- tunity for the display of their special powers , and the history of their ...
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... Civil War . In both cases a con- flict of words preceded that of arms . The voice of the orator was the weapon employed , and a long con- test on the rostrum preceded the appeal to arms . With the first of these periods we have already ...
... Civil War . In both cases a con- flict of words preceded that of arms . The voice of the orator was the weapon employed , and a long con- test on the rostrum preceded the appeal to arms . With the first of these periods we have already ...
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... civil feuds or drenched , it may be , in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance , rather , behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic , now known and honored throughout the earth , still full high advanced , its ...
... civil feuds or drenched , it may be , in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance , rather , behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic , now known and honored throughout the earth , still full high advanced , its ...
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