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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... marked by two men of sublime alti- tude , as compared with their fellows , -Washington , the hero of the Revolution , and Lincoln , the presiding genius of the Civil War . These two men , whom future history is likely to place on ...
... marked by two men of sublime alti- tude , as compared with their fellows , -Washington , the hero of the Revolution , and Lincoln , the presiding genius of the Civil War . These two men , whom future history is likely to place on ...
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... marked by great exigencies that called forth noble efforts of oratorical art , the same may be said . of the latter . The history of the Dominion , indeed , has been wrought out with no such mighty conflicts as that of the slavery ...
... marked by great exigencies that called forth noble efforts of oratorical art , the same may be said . of the latter . The history of the Dominion , indeed , has been wrought out with no such mighty conflicts as that of the slavery ...
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... is vigorous and his power to hold an audience is marked . This is a picture of Labor Day meeting near Philadelphia , 1902 where Mr. Mitchell addressed a great assemblage . EX DEMOSTHENES THE GREEK AND CICERO THE ROMAN These two.
... is vigorous and his power to hold an audience is marked . This is a picture of Labor Day meeting near Philadelphia , 1902 where Mr. Mitchell addressed a great assemblage . EX DEMOSTHENES THE GREEK AND CICERO THE ROMAN These two.
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... marked change in this situation of affairs . And this was especially the case in the United States , whose republican institutions favored free thought and untrammeled action among all classes of the com- munity . Naturally such great ...
... marked change in this situation of affairs . And this was especially the case in the United States , whose republican institutions favored free thought and untrammeled action among all classes of the com- munity . Naturally such great ...
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... marked ability must have arisen can scarcely be questioned , though we do not possess many animated examples of the art . One important occasion for its exercise was the Puritan Revolution in England , when the halls of Parliament rang ...
... marked ability must have arisen can scarcely be questioned , though we do not possess many animated examples of the art . One important occasion for its exercise was the Puritan Revolution in England , when the halls of Parliament rang ...
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