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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... character of their orations . Biographical and Historical Helps The Biography of every Great Orator , including the dates of his life and death , and the important incidents of his career , has been especially written for this book and ...
... character of their orations . Biographical and Historical Helps The Biography of every Great Orator , including the dates of his life and death , and the important incidents of his career , has been especially written for this book and ...
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... character losing their force and potency as time goes on , however effective they may have seemed when the occasion served . The legal oration , for example , is usually of passing interest , rarely appealing even at the time to more ...
... character losing their force and potency as time goes on , however effective they may have seemed when the occasion served . The legal oration , for example , is usually of passing interest , rarely appealing even at the time to more ...
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... character very opposite to theirs , I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve . This is no time for ceremony . The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country . For my own part , I consider it as ...
... character very opposite to theirs , I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve . This is no time for ceremony . The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country . For my own part , I consider it as ...
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... character of the proposed new government . ] Give me leave to say something of the nature of the government , and to show that it is perfectly safe and just to vest it with the power of taxation . There are a number of opinions ; but ...
... character of the proposed new government . ] Give me leave to say something of the nature of the government , and to show that it is perfectly safe and just to vest it with the power of taxation . There are a number of opinions ; but ...
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... character : " I would rather be right than be President . " THE AMERICAN SYSTEM [ Clay , who had argued strongly in favor of a protective tariff during the spirited discussion in 1824 , took different ground in 1832 and 1833 , during a ...
... character : " I would rather be right than be President . " THE AMERICAN SYSTEM [ Clay , who had argued strongly in favor of a protective tariff during the spirited discussion in 1824 , took different ground in 1832 and 1833 , during a ...
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