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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The touching words in which he bore tribute to his dead friend held spellbound the crowded audience , and as he spoke that sublimely beautiful passage with which the oration closed , the solemn hush which fell upon the great assembly ...
The touching words in which he bore tribute to his dead friend held spellbound the crowded audience , and as he spoke that sublimely beautiful passage with which the oration closed , the solemn hush which fell upon the great assembly ...
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The fatal deed which closed his career took place during a visit to the Pan - American Exposition at Buffalo , N. Y. , death coming to him on September 14 , 1901 , a week after the anarchist's deadly act . 1 1 1 1 THE AGENCIES OF MODERN ...
The fatal deed which closed his career took place during a visit to the Pan - American Exposition at Buffalo , N. Y. , death coming to him on September 14 , 1901 , a week after the anarchist's deadly act . 1 1 1 1 THE AGENCIES OF MODERN ...
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... the field of politics was firmly closed against her ; it not being opened until 1848 ; when the first Woman's Rights Convention was called . In the succeeding period the voice of woman has been often and effectively heard , dealing ...
... the field of politics was firmly closed against her ; it not being opened until 1848 ; when the first Woman's Rights Convention was called . In the succeeding period the voice of woman has been often and effectively heard , dealing ...
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... the dealers closed their saloons , and some of them emptied barrels of liquor into the gutters . This movement enlisted the heart - felt sympathy of Frances E. Willard , then president of a college for women at Evanston , Illinois .
... the dealers closed their saloons , and some of them emptied barrels of liquor into the gutters . This movement enlisted the heart - felt sympathy of Frances E. Willard , then president of a college for women at Evanston , Illinois .
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... assembled and are reviewing the struggles of the past and preparing for the struggles of the future . The year just closed has been unprecedented in the growth of the trades union movement , and of independent thought and action .
... assembled and are reviewing the struggles of the past and preparing for the struggles of the future . The year just closed has been unprecedented in the growth of the trades union movement , and of independent thought and action .
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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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