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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... 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 every ...
... 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 every ...
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... career ; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from heaven : " Will you permit our posterity to groan under the galling chains of our murderers ? Has our blood been expended in vain ? Is the only ...
... career ; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from heaven : " Will you permit our posterity to groan under the galling chains of our murderers ? Has our blood been expended in vain ? Is the only ...
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... career . Three great compromise measures were engineered by him - the Missouri Compro- mise of 1820 , the Tariff Compromise of 1833 , and the Territorial Compromise of 1850 , the latter two being initiated and carried through by him ...
... career . Three great compromise measures were engineered by him - the Missouri Compro- mise of 1820 , the Tariff Compromise of 1833 , and the Territorial Compromise of 1850 , the latter two being initiated and carried through by him ...
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... career in the Senate began in 1850 , when he was elected to succeed Daniel Webster , then made Secretary of State . He continued there during the remainder of his life , taking an active part in the debates during the war and the ...
... career in the Senate began in 1850 , when he was elected to succeed Daniel Webster , then made Secretary of State . He continued there during the remainder of his life , taking an active part in the debates during the war and the ...
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... career has disputed with him his hold upon the popular imagi- nation and his leadership of his party . " A EULOGY OF GARFIELD In February , 1882 , Blaine delivered , in the hall of the House of Representatives , a pathetic eulogy on the ...
... career has disputed with him his hold upon the popular imagi- nation and his leadership of his party . " A EULOGY OF GARFIELD In February , 1882 , Blaine delivered , in the hall of the House of Representatives , a pathetic eulogy on the ...
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