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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... arguments ; exciting campaign speeches ; learned lectures ; in fact , all the styles of oratory which can be found in the whole range of ancient and modern eloquence . A Magnificent Display of Illustrations At great expense ...
... arguments ; exciting campaign speeches ; learned lectures ; in fact , all the styles of oratory which can be found in the whole range of ancient and modern eloquence . A Magnificent Display of Illustrations At great expense ...
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... argument , every device to add to the strength of his client's case and lessen that of his opponent . But ordinarily the orator , partisan though he may be , has a wider audience than a jury , and a higher sense of duty to himself and ...
... argument , every device to add to the strength of his client's case and lessen that of his opponent . But ordinarily the orator , partisan though he may be , has a wider audience than a jury , and a higher sense of duty to himself and ...
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... arguments are exposed . For this reason it may be held that no one should decide as to the true merit of an oration until he has read it , and the really great orations can be enjoyed by the reader centuries even after they were ...
... arguments are exposed . For this reason it may be held that no one should decide as to the true merit of an oration until he has read it , and the really great orations can be enjoyed by the reader centuries even after they were ...
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... argument , and were able to show the people that there was no middle course between the Constitution and anarchy . To reject it would have been the death of the Union and the ruin of the States . This is what Madison sought to ...
... argument , and were able to show the people that there was no middle course between the Constitution and anarchy . To reject it would have been the death of the Union and the ruin of the States . This is what Madison sought to ...
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... arguments of fiery contestants ; and ending . in actual war when logic and argument had failed to smooth the waves of hostile feeling . This period has been well denominated " The Golden Age of American Oratory . " It gave rise to such ...
... arguments of fiery contestants ; and ending . in actual war when logic and argument had failed to smooth the waves of hostile feeling . This period has been well denominated " The Golden Age of American Oratory . " It gave rise to such ...
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