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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... interest to the general reader . In making selections from the store at com- mand 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 ...
... interest to the general reader . In making selections from the store at com- mand 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 ...
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... interest alike for its eulogy of Lincoln , and its views on the effect of emancipation and the reunion of the country . ] I knew Mr. Lincoln well . We met in the House in December , 1847 . We were together during the Thirtieth Congress ...
... interest alike for its eulogy of Lincoln , and its views on the effect of emancipation and the reunion of the country . ] I knew Mr. Lincoln well . We met in the House in December , 1847 . We were together during the Thirtieth Congress ...
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... interest had followed every step of his onward progress , from the day that he entered upon his college course until he had obtained the loftiest elevation in the gift of his country- men . Surely , if happiness can ever come from the ...
... interest had followed every step of his onward progress , from the day that he entered upon his college course until he had obtained the loftiest elevation in the gift of his country- men . Surely , if happiness can ever come from the ...
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... interest as the tariff , the greenback currency , free silver , the Philippine question , and other topics on which opinion differed ; but none of these have a threat of war or revolution behind them , and the stir of thought or vigor ...
... interest as the tariff , the greenback currency , free silver , the Philippine question , and other topics on which opinion differed ; but none of these have a threat of war or revolution behind them , and the stir of thought or vigor ...
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... interests should stand rebuked . We are not dealing with the con- cerns of a city , a province or a state , but with the future of our race in all time to come . N NICHOLAS FLOOD DAVIN ( 1843-1901 ) EDITOR , AUTHOR 228 Joseph Howe 228 ...
... interests should stand rebuked . We are not dealing with the con- cerns of a city , a province or a state , but with the future of our race in all time to come . N NICHOLAS FLOOD DAVIN ( 1843-1901 ) EDITOR , AUTHOR 228 Joseph Howe 228 ...
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