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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... Nature 450 Jean Baptiste Massillon . The Iniquity of Evil Speaking . 452 453 BOOK III . ENGLISH ORATORS OF THE MIDDLE PERIOD Francis Bacon . The Evils of Dueling Sir Edward Coke The Charges in Raleigh's Case . Sir John Eliot . John Pym ...
... Nature 450 Jean Baptiste Massillon . The Iniquity of Evil Speaking . 452 453 BOOK III . ENGLISH ORATORS OF THE MIDDLE PERIOD Francis Bacon . The Evils of Dueling Sir Edward Coke The Charges in Raleigh's Case . Sir John Eliot . John Pym ...
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... natural advantages for commerce to their avarice , formed a deliberate plan to wrest from you the small pit- tance of property which they had permitted you to acquire . Remember that the men who wish to rule over you are they who , in ...
... natural advantages for commerce to their avarice , formed a deliberate plan to wrest from you the small pit- tance of property which they had permitted you to acquire . Remember that the men who wish to rule over you are they who , in ...
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... nature ; it is , in a manner , unprecedented . We cannot find one express prototype in the experience of the world ; it stands by itself . In some respects it is a government of a federal nature ; in others , it is of a consolidated nature ...
... nature ; it is , in a manner , unprecedented . We cannot find one express prototype in the experience of the world ; it stands by itself . In some respects it is a government of a federal nature ; in others , it is of a consolidated nature ...
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... his skill in debate , and his controlling influence in political measures . Endowed by nature with a voice of wonderful compass and rich harmony , fluent in delivery 74 HENRY CLAY and graceful in gesture , his reputation 73 Henry Clay 73.
... his skill in debate , and his controlling influence in political measures . Endowed by nature with a voice of wonderful compass and rich harmony , fluent in delivery 74 HENRY CLAY and graceful in gesture , his reputation 73 Henry Clay 73.
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... at Delphi - know thyself ; know that the moral nature is the most noble part of man ; transcending far that part which is the seat of passion , CHARLES SUMNER 143 strife , and war ; nobler than The True Grandeur of Nations 142.
... at Delphi - know thyself ; know that the moral nature is the most noble part of man ; transcending far that part which is the seat of passion , CHARLES SUMNER 143 strife , and war ; nobler than The True Grandeur of Nations 142.
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