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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Yet it is not enough for a man to believe in his cause ; his cause as well as his
belief must be strong . The speech which does not ring true to a judicious reader
is defective either in its cause or its advocate . Sophistry may weigh well on the ...
Yet it is not enough for a man to believe in his cause ; his cause as well as his
belief must be strong . The speech which does not ring true to a judicious reader
is defective either in its cause or its advocate . Sophistry may weigh well on the ...
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... John Brown and Liberty Clear Vision versus Education Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man the Reformer George W. Curtis Wendell Phillips and his Life Labor Joseph
Cook Efficient but not Sufficient John B. Gough The Temperance Cause Robert J.
... John Brown and Liberty Clear Vision versus Education Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man the Reformer George W. Curtis Wendell Phillips and his Life Labor Joseph
Cook Efficient but not Sufficient John B. Gough The Temperance Cause Robert J.
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His speeches in this cause were very eloquent , but the Constitution was adopted
. In 1795 President Washington offered him the position of Secretary of State ,
which he declined . The following year he was again elected Governor of Virginia
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His speeches in this cause were very eloquent , but the Constitution was adopted
. In 1795 President Washington offered him the position of Secretary of State ,
which he declined . The following year he was again elected Governor of Virginia
...
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Poor though he was , he could not be bought , though more than once an effort to
bribe him to desert the cause of the people was made . “ Come , friend Samuel , "
said to him Mather Byles , a Tory clergyman of Boston , “ let us relinquish ...
Poor though he was , he could not be bought , though more than once an effort to
bribe him to desert the cause of the people was made . “ Come , friend Samuel , "
said to him Mather Byles , a Tory clergyman of Boston , “ let us relinquish ...
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Here he had to contend against the vehement oratory of Patrick Ilenry and the
persuasive eloquence of George Mason ; yet he gained his cause , the
Constitution was adopted , and Virginia entered the Union . THE AMERICAN
FEDERAL ...
Here he had to contend against the vehement oratory of Patrick Ilenry and the
persuasive eloquence of George Mason ; yet he gained his cause , the
Constitution was adopted , and Virginia entered the Union . THE AMERICAN
FEDERAL ...
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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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