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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... blood of the oration is left - its logic , its truth , its quality as a product of the intellect . When thus read , apart from the per- sonal influence of the orator and with cool and judicial mind , the sophistry , the emptiness , of ...
... blood of the oration is left - its logic , its truth , its quality as a product of the intellect . When thus read , apart from the per- sonal influence of the orator and with cool and judicial mind , the sophistry , the emptiness , of ...
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... blood been expended in vain ? Is the only reward which our constancy , till death , has obtained for our country , that it should be sunk into a deeper and more ignominious vassalage ? " Recollect who are the men that demand your ...
... blood been expended in vain ? Is the only reward which our constancy , till death , has obtained for our country , that it should be sunk into a deeper and more ignominious vassalage ? " Recollect who are the men that demand your ...
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... blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance , rather , behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic , now known and honored throughout the earth , still full high advanced , its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre ...
... blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance , rather , behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic , now known and honored throughout the earth , still full high advanced , its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre ...
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... blood ; who triumphs in battle over his fellow - men . Well may old Sir Thomas Browne exclaim : " The world does not know its greatest men ; " for thus far it has chiefly discerned the violent brood of battle , the armed men springing ...
... blood ; who triumphs in battle over his fellow - men . Well may old Sir Thomas Browne exclaim : " The world does not know its greatest men ; " for thus far it has chiefly discerned the violent brood of battle , the armed men springing ...
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... blood of their husbands and fathers was not spilled in vain ; that it flowed for the greatest and holiest and at the same time the most victorious of causes ; and when our people labor in the sweat of their brow to pay the debt which ...
... blood of their husbands and fathers was not spilled in vain ; that it flowed for the greatest and holiest and at the same time the most victorious of causes ; and when our people labor in the sweat of their brow to pay the debt which ...
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