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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... House of Burgesses of Virginia , its date the year 1765 , its occasion the effort of the King and Parliament of Eng- land to tax the American colonies without their consent . The Bur- gesses had met in protest and talked weakly about ...
... House of Burgesses of Virginia , its date the year 1765 , its occasion the effort of the King and Parliament of Eng- land to tax the American colonies without their consent . The Bur- gesses had met in protest and talked weakly about ...
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... House . But different men often see the same subject in different lights ; and , there- fore , I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen , if , entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs ...
... House . But different men often see the same subject in different lights ; and , there- fore , I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen , if , entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs ...
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... House in Philadelphia , to a very numerous audience , on the Ist . of August , 1776 , its subject being American Independence . We give its eloquent and inspiring peroration . ] If there is any man so base or so weak as to prefer a ...
... House in Philadelphia , to a very numerous audience , on the Ist . of August , 1776 , its subject being American Independence . We give its eloquent and inspiring peroration . ] If there is any man so base or so weak as to prefer a ...
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... House of Congress an unexaggerated picture of the general distress pervading the whole land . We must all yet remember some of its frightful features . We all know that the people were then oppressed and borne down by an enormous load ...
... House of Congress an unexaggerated picture of the general distress pervading the whole land . We must all yet remember some of its frightful features . We all know that the people were then oppressed and borne down by an enormous load ...
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... House of Representatives for sixteen years before the war , and entered this body again in 1874 , serving for several terms . In 1882 he was elected Governor of Georgia . Alike as orator and statesman , Stephens was a man of unusual ...
... House of Representatives for sixteen years before the war , and entered this body again in 1874 , serving for several terms . In 1882 he was elected Governor of Georgia . Alike as orator and statesman , Stephens was a man of unusual ...
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