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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... born in slavery and rose to eminence by their own efforts . Frederick Douglass was the orator of Emancipation , and Booker T. Washington is the orator of Education and Civilization of the Negro Race , and the head of the Tuskeegee ...
... born in slavery and rose to eminence by their own efforts . Frederick Douglass was the orator of Emancipation , and Booker T. Washington is the orator of Education and Civilization of the Negro Race , and the head of the Tuskeegee ...
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... Born at Lynchburg , Virginia , in 1842 , and a boy at school when the Civil War began , he lost no time in closing his books and taking his musket , finding ready entrance into Jackson's famous brigade . Be- ginning as a private , he ...
... Born at Lynchburg , Virginia , in 1842 , and a boy at school when the Civil War began , he lost no time in closing his books and taking his musket , finding ready entrance into Jackson's famous brigade . Be- ginning as a private , he ...
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... born rulers of this great republic . They looked down , not only upon their slaves , but also upon the people of the North , with the haughty contempt of self - asserting superiority . When their pretentions to rule us all were first ...
... born rulers of this great republic . They looked down , not only upon their slaves , but also upon the people of the North , with the haughty contempt of self - asserting superiority . When their pretentions to rule us all were first ...
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... Born on an Ohio farm , he obtained an . education by working his way through DePauw University , for which laudable purpose he took up the honorable calling of a book- agent . His adopted profession was that of the law , in which he ...
... Born on an Ohio farm , he obtained an . education by working his way through DePauw University , for which laudable purpose he took up the honorable calling of a book- agent . His adopted profession was that of the law , in which he ...
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... Born at Athens , Georgia , in 1851 , Grady , on reaching manhood , made journalism his profession , and in 1880 became editor of the Atlanta Constitution , in whose management he soon gained the reputation of being one of the ablest of ...
... Born at Athens , Georgia , in 1851 , Grady , on reaching manhood , made journalism his profession , and in 1880 became editor of the Atlanta Constitution , in whose management he soon gained the reputation of being one of the ablest of ...
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