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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... able party leader George Clinton , to contend against , and Madison had the brilliant orator Patrick Henry , yet they both carried their point . They had much the stronger side of the argument , and were able to show the people that ...
... able party leader George Clinton , to contend against , and Madison had the brilliant orator Patrick Henry , yet they both carried their point . They had much the stronger side of the argument , and were able to show the people that ...
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... able as an orator . SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE UNION [ Mr. Foot's resolution , which called forth the brilliant passage of arms between the oratorical champions of South Carolina and Massachusetts , was for an inquiry and report on the ...
... able as an orator . SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE UNION [ Mr. Foot's resolution , which called forth the brilliant passage of arms between the oratorical champions of South Carolina and Massachusetts , was for an inquiry and report on the ...
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... 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 at public merit , because it ...
... 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 at public merit , because it ...
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... able argument for the defendant in the great impeach- ment trial . As evidence , we give an extract from this very fine forensic effort . ] There are in the Constitution but three barriers against the will of a majority of Congress ...
... able argument for the defendant in the great impeach- ment trial . As evidence , we give an extract from this very fine forensic effort . ] There are in the Constitution but three barriers against the will of a majority of Congress ...
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... What occurred here was premeditated , designed , foreseen . If there be in the universe a Power which ordains the course of history , we cannot fail to see in the settlement CARL SCHURZ ( 1829 ) THE ABLE ADVOCATE OF CIVIL 176.
... What occurred here was premeditated , designed , foreseen . If there be in the universe a Power which ordains the course of history , we cannot fail to see in the settlement CARL SCHURZ ( 1829 ) THE ABLE ADVOCATE OF CIVIL 176.
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