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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... audience before which it was delivered , is found with every great oration . A Great Variety of Oratory Represented Including famous Political orations ; wonderful pulpit sermons ; delightful after- dinner speeches ; dignified ...
... audience before which it was delivered , is found with every great oration . A Great Variety of Oratory Represented Including famous Political orations ; wonderful pulpit sermons ; delightful after- dinner speeches ; dignified ...
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... audience than a jury , and a higher sense of duty to himself and his hearers than is usually to be found in a jury trial . Though it may be his purpose rather to convince than to prove , and though he may not hesi tate to help his side ...
... audience than a jury , and a higher sense of duty to himself and his hearers than is usually to be found in a jury trial . Though it may be his purpose rather to convince than to prove , and though he may not hesi tate to help his side ...
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... SPEECH The Orator electrifies his audience by boldly declaring that the Colonists would not endure the oppression of the Home Govern- ment and boldly declares for Independence . BOOK I. Orators of the American Revolution G REAT occasions.
... SPEECH The Orator electrifies his audience by boldly declaring that the Colonists would not endure the oppression of the Home Govern- ment and boldly declares for Independence . BOOK I. Orators of the American Revolution G REAT occasions.
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... audience , on the Ist . of August , 1776 , its subject being American Independence . We give its eloquent and inspiring peroration . ] If there is any man so base or so weak as to prefer a dependence on Great Britain , to the dignity ...
... audience , on the Ist . of August , 1776 , its subject being American Independence . We give its eloquent and inspiring peroration . ] If there is any man so base or so weak as to prefer a dependence on Great Britain , to the dignity ...
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... audience . It included the President and his Cabinet , both Houses of Congress , the Supreme Court , the foreign Ministers , and great numbers of distinguished men and The touching words in which he bore tribute to his dead friend held ...
... audience . It included the President and his Cabinet , both Houses of Congress , the Supreme Court , the foreign Ministers , and great numbers of distinguished men and The touching words in which he bore tribute to his dead friend held ...
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