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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... Senate before reaching the constitutional limit of thirty years of age . His rapid progress was due to his fine native powers of oratory , his skill in debate , and his controlling influence in political measures . Endowed by nature ...
... Senate before reaching the constitutional limit of thirty years of age . His rapid progress was due to his fine native powers of oratory , his skill in debate , and his controlling influence in political measures . Endowed by nature ...
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... Senator , provoking the latter to his famous rejoinder . We must confine ourselves to suggestive extracts from this ... Senate . Little did I expect to be called upon to meet such an argument as was yesterday urged by the gentleman from ...
... Senator , provoking the latter to his famous rejoinder . We must confine ourselves to suggestive extracts from this ... Senate . Little did I expect to be called upon to meet such an argument as was yesterday urged by the gentleman from ...
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... Senate , or elsewhere , to sneer at public merit , because it happens to spring up beyond the little limits of my own State or neighborhood ; when I refuse , for any such cause , or for any cause , the homage due to American talent , to ...
... Senate , or elsewhere , to sneer at public merit , because it happens to spring up beyond the little limits of my own State or neighborhood ; when I refuse , for any such cause , or for any cause , the homage due to American talent , to ...
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... 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 was the orator of Compromise rather than the orator of Sectionalism ...
... 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 was the orator of Compromise rather than the orator of Sectionalism ...
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... Senator , and Stephens Vice - President of the Con- federacy during its four eventful years . He had been a member of the National House of Representatives for sixteen years before the war , and entered this body again in 1874 , serving ...
... Senator , and Stephens Vice - President of the Con- federacy during its four eventful years . He had been a member of the National House of Representatives for sixteen years before the war , and entered this body again in 1874 , serving ...
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