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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... meet such an argument as was yesterday urged by the gentleman from Massachusetts ( Mr. Webster ) . Sir , I questioned no man's opinions ; I impeached no man's motives ; I charged no party , or State , or section of country with ...
... meet such an argument as was yesterday urged by the gentleman from Massachusetts ( Mr. Webster ) . Sir , I questioned no man's opinions ; I impeached no man's motives ; I charged no party , or State , or section of country with ...
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... meets my hearty concurrence . I shall not acknowledge that the honorable member goes before me in regard for whatever of distinguished talent , or distinguished character , South Carolina has produced . I claim part of the honor , I ...
... meets my hearty concurrence . I shall not acknowledge that the honorable member goes before me in regard for whatever of distinguished talent , or distinguished character , South Carolina has produced . I claim part of the honor , I ...
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... meet the wife whom he loved , now recovering from an illness which had but lately disquieted and at times almost unnerved him ; that he was going to his alma mater to renew the most cherished associations of his young manhood , and to ...
... meet the wife whom he loved , now recovering from an illness which had but lately disquieted and at times almost unnerved him ; that he was going to his alma mater to renew the most cherished associations of his young manhood , and to ...
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... meet them on either issue or on both . If they tell us that the gold standard is the standard of civilization , we reply to them that this , the most enlightened of all the nations of the earth , has never declared for a gold standard ...
... meet them on either issue or on both . If they tell us that the gold standard is the standard of civilization , we reply to them that this , the most enlightened of all the nations of the earth , has never declared for a gold standard ...
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... meet this world - wide Empire united to fight ? Instead of the New Zealander sketching the ruins of St. Paul's , we should have the Maori swelling the Imperial army . The men living in the two heroic isles show no decay , and as for ...
... meet this world - wide Empire united to fight ? Instead of the New Zealander sketching the ruins of St. Paul's , we should have the Maori swelling the Imperial army . The men living in the two heroic isles show no decay , and as for ...
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