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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... became a member of the Continental Congress and was one of the most earnest and unflinching of those who labored for the Declaration of Independence . The signing of the Declaration gave occasion for the delivery of the only example we ...
... became a member of the Continental Congress and was one of the most earnest and unflinching of those who labored for the Declaration of Independence . The signing of the Declaration gave occasion for the delivery of the only example we ...
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... became Secretary of State under Jefferson , and in 1809 took his seat as President . He continued in this high office for eight years , of which three were years of war . The remainder of his life was spent in rest and quiet . Madison ...
... became Secretary of State under Jefferson , and in 1809 took his seat as President . He continued in this high office for eight years , of which three were years of war . The remainder of his life was spent in rest and quiet . Madison ...
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... became a member of the United States Senate before reaching the constitutional limit of thirty years of age . His rapid progress was due to his fine native powers of oratory , his skill in debate , and his controlling influence in ...
... became a member of the United States Senate before reaching the constitutional limit of thirty years of age . His rapid progress was due to his fine native powers of oratory , his skill in debate , and his controlling influence in ...
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... became the arena of verbal tournaments , and stirring orations upon vital subjects of political expediency were once more the order of the day . The finest orations of the period under review , however , belong to the period preceding ...
... became the arena of verbal tournaments , and stirring orations upon vital subjects of political expediency were once more the order of the day . The finest orations of the period under review , however , belong to the period preceding ...
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... became insensible , and injuring him so seriously that it was years before he fully recovered . It was the appeal to violence ; the first blow in the Civil War . It indicated that the conflict was passing the limits of debate and ...
... became insensible , and injuring him so seriously that it was years before he fully recovered . It was the appeal to violence ; the first blow in the Civil War . It indicated that the conflict was passing the limits of debate and ...
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