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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His words 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 ...
His words 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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... and which carried New York for the Union , his colleague , Madison , was
engaged in the same good work in Virginia . ... leader George Clinton , to
contend against , and Madison had the brilliant orator Patrick Henry , yet they
both carried ...
... and which carried New York for the Union , his colleague , Madison , was
engaged in the same good work in Virginia . ... leader George Clinton , to
contend against , and Madison had the brilliant orator Patrick Henry , yet they
both carried ...
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Three great compromise measures were engineered by him — the Missouri
Compromise of 1820 , the Tariff Compromise of 1833 , and the Territorial
Compromise of 1850 , the latter two being initiated and carried through by him .
By these ...
Three great compromise measures were engineered by him — the Missouri
Compromise of 1820 , the Tariff Compromise of 1833 , and the Territorial
Compromise of 1850 , the latter two being initiated and carried through by him .
By these ...
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... the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly 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 ...
... the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly 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 ...
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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 adopt .
... 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 adopt .
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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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