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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... of permanent interest in themselves — those great occasions or events of history which never grow dull or stale , but retain their freshness through the ages . CONTENTS PART I. AMERICAN ORATORS BOOK I. REVOLUTIONARY ORATORS OF.
... of permanent interest in themselves — those great occasions or events of history which never grow dull or stale , but retain their freshness through the ages . CONTENTS PART I. AMERICAN ORATORS BOOK I. REVOLUTIONARY ORATORS OF.
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... events . What would have been known of Washington but for the struggle for American Independence , of Napoleon but for the French Revolution , of Grant but for the American Civil War ? Men like these would , no doubt , have made their ...
... events . What would have been known of Washington but for the struggle for American Independence , of Napoleon but for the French Revolution , of Grant but for the American Civil War ? Men like these would , no doubt , have made their ...
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... events of 1798 and 1799 he once more entered the political field , made his final public address , and was elected to the Assembly . He died before he could take his seat . AN APPEAL TO ARMS . [ As Patrick Henry had hurled the first ...
... events of 1798 and 1799 he once more entered the political field , made his final public address , and was elected to the Assembly . He died before he could take his seat . AN APPEAL TO ARMS . [ As Patrick Henry had hurled the first ...
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... event and the action of the king in response thereto , had a great deal to do with precipi- tating the Revolution . Adams became a member of the Continental Congress and was one of the most earnest and unflinching of those who labored ...
... event and the action of the king in response thereto , had a great deal to do with precipi- tating the Revolution . Adams became a member of the Continental Congress and was one of the most earnest and unflinching of those who labored ...
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... event- ually be restored to the Union was , in the sentiment of the American people , a foregone conclusion , but the conditions of their restoration , the principles upon which reconstruction would be based , remained to be determined ...
... event- ually be restored to the Union was , in the sentiment of the American people , a foregone conclusion , but the conditions of their restoration , the principles upon which reconstruction would be based , remained to be determined ...
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