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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... President Washington offered him the position of Secretary of State , which he declined . The following year he was again elected Governor of Virginia , which posi- tion he also declined . During the exciting events of 1798 and 1799 he ...
... President Washington offered him the position of Secretary of State , which he declined . The following year he was again elected Governor of Virginia , which posi- tion he also declined . During the exciting events of 1798 and 1799 he ...
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... President . He continued in this high office for eight years , of which three were years of war . The remainder of his life was spent in rest and quiet . Madison was one of the most illustrious of the early American statesmen , an able ...
... President . He continued in this high office for eight years , of which three were years of war . The remainder of his life was spent in rest and quiet . Madison was one of the most illustrious of the early American statesmen , an able ...
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... President . " THE AMERICAN SYSTEM [ Clay , who had argued strongly in favor of a protective tariff during the spirited discussion in 1824 , took different ground in 1832 and 1833 , during a period of excite- ment in the South against ...
... President . " THE AMERICAN SYSTEM [ Clay , who had argued strongly in favor of a protective tariff during the spirited discussion in 1824 , took different ground in 1832 and 1833 , during a period of excite- ment in the South against ...
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... PRESIDENT : When I took occasion , two days ago , to throw out some ideas with respect to the policy of the Government , in relation to the public lands , nothing certainly could have been further from my thoughts than that I should ...
... PRESIDENT : When I took occasion , two days ago , to throw out some ideas with respect to the policy of the Government , in relation to the public lands , nothing certainly could have been further from my thoughts than that I should ...
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... PRESIDENT W HEN , in the early days of 1861 , the secession convention of Georgia , was considering the perilous purpose which most of its members had strongly in view , Alexander H. Stephens earnestly combatted its suicidal course . In ...
... PRESIDENT W HEN , in the early days of 1861 , the secession convention of Georgia , was considering the perilous purpose which most of its members had strongly in view , Alexander H. Stephens earnestly combatted its suicidal course . In ...
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