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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Little did I expect to be called upon to 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
...
Little did I expect to be called upon to 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
...
Page 137
... that he was soon 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 ...
... that he was soon 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 ...
Page 201
Here is the line of battle , and we care not upon which issue they force the fight ;
we are prepared to 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 ...
Here is the line of battle , and we care not upon which issue they force the fight ;
we are prepared to 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 ...
Page 233
Where is the nation , or combination of nations , which could 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 ...
Where is the nation , or combination of nations , which could 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 ...
Page 357
... a native of Athens , arose , and in a succession of orations of unequalled
eloquence exposed the designs of the enemy of Grecian liberty , and sought to
arouse his countrymen to meet their new foeman as they had met the Persians of
old .
... a native of Athens , arose , and in a succession of orations of unequalled
eloquence exposed the designs of the enemy of Grecian liberty , and sought to
arouse his countrymen to meet their new foeman as they had met the Persians of
old .
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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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