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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... active part in the debates on the Constitution , and after- wards in the 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 ...
... active part in the debates on the Constitution , and after- wards in the 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 ...
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... active part in the debates during the war and the reconstruction period that followed . He was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations from 1861 to 1870 , and lived to witness the triumph of the principles for which he so long ...
... active part in the debates during the war and the reconstruction period that followed . He was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations from 1861 to 1870 , and lived to witness the triumph of the principles for which he so long ...
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... active career has disputed with him his hold upon the popular imagi- nation and his leadership of his party . " A EULOGY OF GARFIELD In February , 1882 , Blaine delivered , in the hall of the House of Representatives , a pathetic eulogy ...
... active career has disputed with him his hold upon the popular imagi- nation and his leadership of his party . " A EULOGY OF GARFIELD In February , 1882 , Blaine delivered , in the hall of the House of Representatives , a pathetic eulogy ...
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... active party controversies , on such perennial subjects of public interest as the tariff , the greenback currency , free silver , the Philippine question , and other topics on which opinion differed ; but none of these have a threat of ...
... active party controversies , on such perennial subjects of public interest as the tariff , the greenback currency , free silver , the Philippine question , and other topics on which opinion differed ; but none of these have a threat of ...
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... active in political labors . His career here began in 1856 , with speeches in German in favor of Fremont . In 1860 , having learned English . he canvassed several States for the election of Lincoln , and won a high reputation as an ...
... active in political labors . His career here began in 1856 , with speeches in German in favor of Fremont . In 1860 , having learned English . he canvassed several States for the election of Lincoln , and won a high reputation as an ...
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