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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... heart and not from the lips . Yet it is not enough for a man to believe in his cause ; his cause as well as his belief must be strong . The speech which does not ring true to a judicious reader is defective either in its cause or its ...
... heart and not from the lips . Yet it is not enough for a man to believe in his cause ; his cause as well as his belief must be strong . The speech which does not ring true to a judicious reader is defective either in its cause or its ...
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... hearts of his countrymen . He was everywhere the favorite of the people . " Who ever , " says Parton , " heard such cheers , so hearty , distinct and ringing , as those which his name evoked ? Men shed tears at his defeat and women went ...
... hearts of his countrymen . He was everywhere the favorite of the people . " Who ever , " says Parton , " heard such cheers , so hearty , distinct and ringing , as those which his name evoked ? Men shed tears at his defeat and women went ...
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... heart - Liberty and Union , now and forever , one and inseparable ! THE SECRET OF MURDER [ As an example of Webster's forensic oratory we offer a selection from his cele- brated argument in the trial for murder of John K. Knapp . In the ...
... heart - Liberty and Union , now and forever , one and inseparable ! THE SECRET OF MURDER [ As an example of Webster's forensic oratory we offer a selection from his cele- brated argument in the trial for murder of John K. Knapp . In the ...
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... hearts of the people as the simple - minded , great - souled , gentle - natured Abraham Lincoln , the earnest , honest , genial Father Abraham of slave and freemen alike . Lincoln in the fullest sense began life at the bottom and ...
... hearts of the people as the simple - minded , great - souled , gentle - natured Abraham Lincoln , the earnest , honest , genial Father Abraham of slave and freemen alike . Lincoln in the fullest sense began life at the bottom and ...
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... hearts of our people as the true motto of the great Western Republic . ] Fellow - COUNTRYMEN : At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office , there is less occasion for an extended address than at the first ...
... hearts of our people as the true motto of the great Western Republic . ] Fellow - COUNTRYMEN : At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office , there is less occasion for an extended address than at the first ...
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