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 Books |
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... incidents of his career , has been especially written for this book and precedes
his oration . A carefully prepared history of the time and occasion which called
forth the speech , and the audience before which it was delivered , is found with ...
... incidents of his career , has been especially written for this book and precedes
his oration . A carefully prepared history of the time and occasion which called
forth the speech , and the audience before which it was delivered , is found with ...
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... annulled the sacred contracts which had been made with your ancestors ;
conveyed into your cities a mercenary soldiery to compel you to submission by
insult and murder , who called your patience , cowardice ; your piety , hypocrisy .
... annulled the sacred contracts which had been made with your ancestors ;
conveyed into your cities a mercenary soldiery to compel you to submission by
insult and murder , who called your patience , cowardice ; your piety , hypocrisy .
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He took an active part in the debates on the Constitution , and afterwards in the
Virginia Convention called to ratify it . Here he had to contend against the
vehement oratory of Patrick Ilenry and the persuasive eloquence of George
Mason ; yet ...
He took an active part in the debates on the Constitution , and afterwards in the
Virginia Convention called to ratify it . Here he had to contend against the
vehement oratory of Patrick Ilenry and the persuasive eloquence of George
Mason ; yet ...
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The Golden Age of American Oratory O " F what may be called the critical periods
in the history of the United States , there have been two which stand pre -
eminent in the development of oratory as in other respects . The first of these was
the ...
The Golden Age of American Oratory O " F what may be called the critical periods
in the history of the United States , there have been two which stand pre -
eminent in the development of oratory as in other respects . The first of these was
the ...
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... that ruinous sales and sacrifices were everywhere made of real estate ; that
stop - laws and relief - laws and paper - money were adopted 80 ROCERT Y.
HAYNE Twelve thousand volunteers were called out Gouverneur Morris The
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... that ruinous sales and sacrifices were everywhere made of real estate ; that
stop - laws and relief - laws and paper - money were adopted 80 ROCERT Y.
HAYNE Twelve thousand volunteers were called out Gouverneur Morris The
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| Title | 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 ... |
| Author | Charles Morris |
| Published | 1902 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2014 |
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