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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... living force to spoken words . The orator should have the art of the poet as well as the force of the rea- soner , be capable of clothing his thoughts in a brilliant cloak of words and phrases , of controlling the feelings as well as ...
... living force to spoken words . The orator should have the art of the poet as well as the force of the rea- soner , be capable of clothing his thoughts in a brilliant cloak of words and phrases , of controlling the feelings as well as ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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... 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 history- making epoch that produced the earliest ...
... 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 history- making epoch that produced the earliest ...
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... living a member of a free and independent nation , let me tell him that necessity now demands what the generous principle of patriotism should have dictated . We have now no other alternative than independence , or the most ignominious ...
... living a member of a free and independent nation , let me tell him that necessity now demands what the generous principle of patriotism should have dictated . We have now no other alternative than independence , or the most ignominious ...
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... 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 , now and forever ...
... 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 , now and forever ...
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