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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... carried the hall by storm ; the resolutions were adopted ; and from that day to this Patrick Henry has been hailed as one of the greatest of American orators . Henry was sent as a delegate to the Continental Congress , which he ...
... carried the hall by storm ; the resolutions were adopted ; and from that day to this Patrick Henry has been hailed as one of the greatest of American orators . Henry was sent as a delegate to the Continental Congress , which he ...
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... carried New York for the Union , his colleague , Madison , was engaged in the same good work in Virginia . Hamilton had the able party leader George Clinton , to contend against , and Madison had the brilliant orator Patrick Henry , yet ...
... carried New York for the Union , his colleague , Madison , was engaged in the same good work in Virginia . Hamilton had the able party leader George Clinton , to contend against , and Madison had the brilliant orator Patrick Henry , yet ...
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... carried through by him . By these noble services he smoothed the waves of discontent and stayed the spirit of disunion until death removed him from the scene . His own words form the true motto of his character : " I would rather be ...
... carried through by him . By these noble services he smoothed the waves of discontent and stayed the spirit of disunion until death removed him from the scene . His own words form the true motto of his character : " I would rather be ...
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... carried on . It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us , that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we ...
... carried on . It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us , that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we ...
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... carry all the members of it into any extravagance . I do not call them extravagances in any sense of reproach ; I merely speak of them as the extreme measures that parties in politics , and under whatever motives , may be disposed to ...
... carry all the members of it into any extravagance . I do not call them extravagances in any sense of reproach ; I merely speak of them as the extreme measures that parties in politics , and under whatever motives , may be disposed to ...
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