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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... Virginia . This daring declaration startled the more timid members and a storm of protests arose , but they failed to silence the young orator , who quickly showed himself master of the situation . Never had the old walls of Virginia's ...
... Virginia . This daring declaration startled the more timid members and a storm of protests arose , but they failed to silence the young orator , who quickly showed himself master of the situation . Never had the old walls of Virginia's ...
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... Virginia and again from 1784 to 1786 , poverty forcing him to decline other elections and return to his legal practice . In 1788 he opposed the new Constitution , being a strong advocate of State independence . His speeches in this ...
... Virginia and again from 1784 to 1786 , poverty forcing him to decline other elections and return to his legal practice . In 1788 he opposed the new Constitution , being a strong advocate of State independence . His speeches in this ...
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... Virginia Convention called to ratify it . Here he had to contend against the vehement oratory of Patrick Henry and the per- suasive eloquence of George Mason ; yet he gained his cause , the Constitution was adopted , and Virginia ...
... Virginia Convention called to ratify it . Here he had to contend against the vehement oratory of Patrick Henry and the per- suasive eloquence of George Mason ; yet he gained his cause , the Constitution was adopted , and Virginia ...
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... Virginia farm to aid his widowed mother , and riding barefoot to mill for the family flour - whence his familiar title , " The Mill - boy of the Slashes . " A clerk in Richmond at four- teen , he was admitted to the bar at twenty , and ...
... Virginia farm to aid his widowed mother , and riding barefoot to mill for the family flour - whence his familiar title , " The Mill - boy of the Slashes . " A clerk in Richmond at four- teen , he was admitted to the bar at twenty , and ...
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... eloquent powers of expression , yet none of them based on such national exigencies as gave inspiration to the words of a Henry or a Webster . JOHN W. DANIEL ( 1842 A VIRGINIA ORATOR AND STATESMAN 167 BOOK IV RECENT POLITICAL ORATORS ix.
... eloquent powers of expression , yet none of them based on such national exigencies as gave inspiration to the words of a Henry or a Webster . JOHN W. DANIEL ( 1842 A VIRGINIA ORATOR AND STATESMAN 167 BOOK IV RECENT POLITICAL ORATORS ix.
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