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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... looked with displeasure on the raw newcomer , who ventured to address them on a topic which they had feared to deal with themselves . They were the more annoyed and amazed when he offered a set of resolutions setting forth that the ...
... looked with displeasure on the raw newcomer , who ventured to address them on a topic which they had feared to deal with themselves . They were the more annoyed and amazed when he offered a set of resolutions setting forth that the ...
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... looked down , not only upon their slaves , but also upon the people of the North , with the haughty contempt of self - asserting superiority . When their pretentions to rule us all were first successfully disputed , they resolved to ...
... looked down , not only upon their slaves , but also upon the people of the North , with the haughty contempt of self - asserting superiority . When their pretentions to rule us all were first successfully disputed , they resolved to ...
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... looked them in his face before he chiseled them into stone . Dupuytren and Cuvier are said to be the only men in our day that have had a brain so vast . Since Charlemagne I think there has not been such a grand figure in all Christendom ...
... looked them in his face before he chiseled them into stone . Dupuytren and Cuvier are said to be the only men in our day that have had a brain so vast . Since Charlemagne I think there has not been such a grand figure in all Christendom ...
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... looked an emperor in that council . Even the majestic Calhoun seemed common compared with him . Clay looked vulgar , and Van Buren but a fox . What a mouth he had ! It was a lion's mouth . Yet there was a sweet grandeur in his smile ...
... looked an emperor in that council . Even the majestic Calhoun seemed common compared with him . Clay looked vulgar , and Van Buren but a fox . What a mouth he had ! It was a lion's mouth . Yet there was a sweet grandeur in his smile ...
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... looked into the future calmly , and with faith ; they saw the golden beam inclining to the side of perfect justice ; and they fought on amid the storm of persecution . In Great Britain they tell me when I go to see such a prison ...
... looked into the future calmly , and with faith ; they saw the golden beam inclining to the side of perfect justice ; and they fought on amid the storm of persecution . In Great Britain they tell me when I go to see such a prison ...
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