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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... effort grows doubly apparent . No longer taken captive by the speaker's manner and the external aids to eloquence , the reader can calmly measure and weigh 1.is words and thoughts , with competence to reject the vapid example of speech ...
... effort grows doubly apparent . No longer taken captive by the speaker's manner and the external aids to eloquence , the reader can calmly measure and weigh 1.is words and thoughts , with competence to reject the vapid example of speech ...
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... effort has been made to do justice to the orator , as far as possible , from both points of view . While carefully chosen selections from notable speeches have been made , in evidence of the quality of thought and mode of expression of ...
... effort has been made to do justice to the orator , as far as possible , from both points of view . While carefully chosen selections from notable speeches have been made , in evidence of the quality of thought and mode of expression of ...
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... efforts of the finest quality exist in several of the leading fields of human thought , such as those of the parliament ... effort , some grand dis- play of his powers which throws all others into the shade , and yields us the product of ...
... efforts of the finest quality exist in several of the leading fields of human thought , such as those of the parliament ... effort , some grand dis- play of his powers which throws all others into the shade , and yields us the product of ...
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... effort , its great triumphs have been dependent upon great exigencies in human affairs . While orators have been as numerous almost as autumn leaves , world - famous orations seem as few as the planets of our solar system . The orator ...
... effort , its great triumphs have been dependent upon great exigencies in human affairs . While orators have been as numerous almost as autumn leaves , world - famous orations seem as few as the planets of our solar system . The orator ...
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... effort of the King and Parliament of Eng- land to tax the American colonies without their consent . The Bur- gesses had met in protest and talked weakly about the Stamp Act , which was stirring up America to its depths , but were on the ...
... effort of the King and Parliament of Eng- land to tax the American colonies without their consent . The Bur- gesses had met in protest and talked weakly about the Stamp Act , which was stirring up America to its depths , but were on the ...
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