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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... of Patrick Ilenry and the persuasive eloquence of George Mason ; yet he
gained his cause , the Constitution was adopted , and Virginia entered the Union
. THE AMERICAN FEDERAL UNION [ While Hamilton in New York was
delivering that ...
... of Patrick Ilenry and the persuasive eloquence of George Mason ; yet he
gained his cause , the Constitution was adopted , and Virginia entered the Union
. THE AMERICAN FEDERAL UNION [ While Hamilton in New York was
delivering that ...
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Prominent among those who took part and chief counsel for the President , was
William Maxwell Evarts , the most brilliant legal light of the New York bar , and a
man of national reputation in the field of forensic eloquence . We need scarcely ...
Prominent among those who took part and chief counsel for the President , was
William Maxwell Evarts , the most brilliant legal light of the New York bar , and a
man of national reputation in the field of forensic eloquence . We need scarcely ...
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At the right of the picture are seeil President Roosevelt and Senator Platt of New
York . Mr. Lodge is a well - known author and statesman , a man of great powers
and influence . ISA282 SCISOUS IN 1 DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN POLITICAL
...
At the right of the picture are seeil President Roosevelt and Senator Platt of New
York . Mr. Lodge is a well - known author and statesman , a man of great powers
and influence . ISA282 SCISOUS IN 1 DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN POLITICAL
...
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HENRY W. GRADY ( 1851-1889 ) THE ORATOR OF THE “ NEW SOUTH ” F EW
recent orations have had so great an effect in the North as those delivered by
Henry W. Grady , Georgia's young orator , at New York , on “ The New South , "
and ...
HENRY W. GRADY ( 1851-1889 ) THE ORATOR OF THE “ NEW SOUTH ” F EW
recent orations have had so great an effect in the North as those delivered by
Henry W. Grady , Georgia's young orator , at New York , on “ The New South , "
and ...
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While learning the bookbinding trade in New York he fell into the habit of drinking
, and for ten years was such a slave to intemperance that he sank into the lowest
depths of poverty and wretchedness . About 1840 he was induced to sign the ...
While learning the bookbinding trade in New York he fell into the habit of drinking
, and for ten years was such a slave to intemperance that he sank into the lowest
depths of poverty and wretchedness . About 1840 he was induced to sign the ...
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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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