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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... sight of the great citadel or Acropolis at Athens . His oratory possessed the
intellectual grandeur and artistic finish so characteristic of the highest Eloquence
WISAS SOSOS JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND EDWARD EVERETT Names
famous.
... sight of the great citadel or Acropolis at Athens . His oratory possessed the
intellectual grandeur and artistic finish so characteristic of the highest Eloquence
WISAS SOSOS JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND EDWARD EVERETT Names
famous.
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57 The Defence of Nash . 58 36 38 47 . BOOK II . THE GOLDEN AGE OF
AMERICAN ORATORY Josiah Quincy The Evils of the Embargo Act John
Randolph The Tariff and the Constitution 62 63 66 67 viii CONTENTS PAGE 69
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57 The Defence of Nash . 58 36 38 47 . BOOK II . THE GOLDEN AGE OF
AMERICAN ORATORY Josiah Quincy The Evils of the Embargo Act John
Randolph The Tariff and the Constitution 62 63 66 67 viii CONTENTS PAGE 69
70 73 74 76 79 ...
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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 Murder John C. Calhoun South Carolina and the Union ...
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 Murder John C. Calhoun South Carolina and the Union ...
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John W. Daniel Dedication of the Washington Monument Benjamin H. Hill A Plea
for Union Lucius Q. C. Lamar Sumner and the South George F. Hoar The
Ordinance of 1787 John J. Ingalls The Undiscovered Country Roscoe Conkling
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John W. Daniel Dedication of the Washington Monument Benjamin H. Hill A Plea
for Union Lucius Q. C. Lamar Sumner and the South George F. Hoar The
Ordinance of 1787 John J. Ingalls The Undiscovered Country Roscoe Conkling
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... V. THE ORATORS OF CANADA Joseph Howe Canada and the United States
Sir John A. MacDonald The Treaty of Washington George Brown The Greatness
and Destiny of Canada Nicholas F. Davin The British Colonial Empire Sir Charles
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... V. THE ORATORS OF CANADA Joseph Howe Canada and the United States
Sir John A. MacDonald The Treaty of Washington George Brown The Greatness
and Destiny of Canada Nicholas F. Davin The British Colonial Empire Sir Charles
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