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 living personality is gone — the flashing eye , the vibrating voice , the
impetuous gesture , the passionate declamation , the swaying and sweeping
energy of eloquence which at times gives to meaningless words a controlling
force .
The living personality is gone — the flashing eye , the vibrating voice , the
impetuous gesture , the passionate declamation , the swaying and sweeping
energy of eloquence which at times gives to meaningless words a controlling
force .
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... endeavor to give a living impression of his personality . For this purpose a
detailed portrait gallery of orators has been presented to the reader , that he may
see them “ in their habit as they lived ” ; the special occasion which gave rise to
each ...
... endeavor to give a living impression of his personality . For this purpose a
detailed portrait gallery of orators has been presented to the reader , that he may
see them “ in their habit as they lived ” ; the special occasion which gave rise to
each ...
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... words 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
outburst ...
... words 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
outburst ...
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If there is any man so base or so weak as to prefer a dependence on Great
Britain , to the dignity and happiness of living a member of a free and
independent nation , let me tell him that necessity now demands what the
generous principle of ...
If there is any man so base or so weak as to prefer a dependence on Great
Britain , to the dignity and happiness of living a member of a free and
independent nation , let me tell him that necessity now demands what the
generous principle of ...
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... spread all over in characters of living light , blazing on all its ample folds , as
they float over the sea and over the land , and in every wind under the whole
heavens , that other sentiment , dear to every true American heart - Liberty and
Union ...
... spread all over in characters of living light , blazing on all its ample folds , as
they float over the sea and over the land , and in every wind under the whole
heavens , that other sentiment , dear to every true American heart - Liberty and
Union ...
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| Title | 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 ... |
| Author | Charles Morris |
| Published | 1902 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2014 |
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