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 Books |
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viii CONTENTS PAGE 69 70 73 74 76 79 80 83 84 88 William Wirt Burr and Blennerhassett Henry Clay The American System The Horrors of Civil War Robert Y. Hayne South Carolina and the Union Daniel Webster The Reply to Hayne The Secret of ...
viii CONTENTS PAGE 69 70 73 74 76 79 80 83 84 88 William Wirt Burr and Blennerhassett Henry Clay The American System The Horrors of Civil War Robert Y. Hayne South Carolina and the Union Daniel Webster The Reply to Hayne The Secret of ...
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Viscount Palmerston Civil War in Ireland Sir Robert Peel ... The Importance of Classical Education Lord John Russell . . The “ Rotten Boroughs ” of England . Importance of Literary Studies Richard L. Sheil .. Irish Aliens and English ...
Viscount Palmerston Civil War in Ireland Sir Robert Peel ... The Importance of Classical Education Lord John Russell . . The “ Rotten Boroughs ” of England . Importance of Literary Studies Richard L. Sheil .. Irish Aliens and English ...
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What would have been known of Washington but for the struggle for American Independence , of Napoleon but for the French Revolution , of Grant but for the American Civil War ? Men like these would , no doubt , have made their mark under ...
What would have been known of Washington but for the struggle for American Independence , of Napoleon but for the French Revolution , of Grant but for the American Civil War ? Men like these would , no doubt , have made their mark under ...
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The second was the period of equal disturbance which had its outcome in the Civil War . In both cases a conflict of words preceded that of arms . The voice of the orator was the weapon employed , and a long contest on the rostrum ...
The second was the period of equal disturbance which had its outcome in the Civil War . In both cases a conflict of words preceded that of arms . The voice of the orator was the weapon employed , and a long contest on the rostrum ...
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88 DANIEL WEBSTER sun in heaven , may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered , discordant , belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched , it may be ...
88 DANIEL WEBSTER sun in heaven , may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered , discordant , belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched , it may be ...
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