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 orator should have the art of the poet as well as the force of the reasoner , be capable of clothing his thoughts in a brilliant cloak of words and phrases , of controlling the feelings as well as appealing to the judgment of his ...
The orator should have the art of the poet as well as the force of the reasoner , be capable of clothing his thoughts in a brilliant cloak of words and phrases , of controlling the feelings as well as appealing to the judgment of his ...
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To learn what the oration really contains , and what force it has as a pure expression of human thought , it must be read and weighed by the mind of the auditor when in a cool and critical state . Under such conditions the verdict is ...
To learn what the oration really contains , and what force it has as a pure expression of human thought , it must be read and weighed by the mind of the auditor when in a cool and critical state . Under such conditions the verdict is ...
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In making selections from the store at command the subject as well as the manner needs to be carefully considered , matters of local or temporary character losing their force and potency as time goes on , however effective they may have ...
In making selections from the store at command the subject as well as the manner needs to be carefully considered , matters of local or temporary character losing their force and potency as time goes on , however effective they may have ...
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CONTENTS xi PAGE William G. Brownlow The Union and the Constitution Tribulations in Tennessee Robert Collyer Stopping at Haran Thomas DeWitt Talmage The Upper Forces in American History Henry Codman Potter The Heroism of the Unknown ...
CONTENTS xi PAGE William G. Brownlow The Union and the Constitution Tribulations in Tennessee Robert Collyer Stopping at Haran Thomas DeWitt Talmage The Upper Forces in American History Henry Codman Potter The Heroism of the Unknown ...
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... a living force and a permanent vitality . The first such occasion in American history was that exciting era which gave birth to the American Republic . It is the stirring events of this historymaking epoch that produced the earliest ...
... a living force and a permanent vitality . The first such occasion in American history was that exciting era which gave birth to the American Republic . It is the stirring events of this historymaking epoch that produced the earliest ...
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