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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A clerk in Richmond at fourteen , he was admitted to the bar at twenty , and by
signal fortune became a member of the United States Senate before reaching the
constitutional limit of thirty years of age . His rapid progress was due to his fine ...
A clerk in Richmond at fourteen , he was admitted to the bar at twenty , and by
signal fortune became a member of the United States Senate before reaching the
constitutional limit of thirty years of age . His rapid progress was due to his fine ...
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... Hayne was very caustic in his allusions to the Massachusetts Senator ,
provoking the latter to his famous rejoinder . ... from my thoughts than that I
should have been compelled again to throw myself upon the indulgence of the
Senate .
... Hayne was very caustic in his allusions to the Massachusetts Senator ,
provoking the latter to his famous rejoinder . ... from my thoughts than that I
should have been compelled again to throw myself upon the indulgence of the
Senate .
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... if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies , I
have yet none , as I trust , of that other spirit which would drag angels down .
When I shall be found , sir , in my place here in the Senate , or elsewhere , to
sneer ...
... if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies , I
have yet none , as I trust , of that other spirit which would drag angels down .
When I shall be found , sir , in my place here in the Senate , or elsewhere , to
sneer ...
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... American History commanded more attention than John C. Calhoun , whose
name is intimately associated with Webster and Clay . 22SX28Z SZCISCOS
HENRY CLAY ADDRESSING THE UNITED STATES SENATE In. 1 Calhoun 90
South ...
... American History commanded more attention than John C. Calhoun , whose
name is intimately associated with Webster and Clay . 22SX28Z SZCISCOS
HENRY CLAY ADDRESSING THE UNITED STATES SENATE In. 1 Calhoun 90
South ...
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22SX28Z SZCISCOS HENRY CLAY ADDRESSING THE UNITED STATES
SENATE In this dignified Assembly were Webster , Clay and Calhoun , and other
illustrious orators of this , the most exciting period of American History . Henry
Clay ...
22SX28Z SZCISCOS HENRY CLAY ADDRESSING THE UNITED STATES
SENATE In this dignified Assembly were Webster , Clay and Calhoun , and other
illustrious orators of this , the most exciting period of American History . Henry
Clay ...
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| Title | 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 ... |
| Author | Charles Morris |
| Published | 1902 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2014 |
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