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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xiv CONTENTS John Calvin The Courage of a Christian Jacques Benigne
Bossuet .. The Death of the Prince of Condé Louis Bourdaloue The Passion of
Christ Francois Fenelon God Revealed in Nature Jean Baptiste Massillon The
Iniquity of ...
xiv CONTENTS John Calvin The Courage of a Christian Jacques Benigne
Bossuet .. The Death of the Prince of Condé Louis Bourdaloue The Passion of
Christ Francois Fenelon God Revealed in Nature Jean Baptiste Massillon The
Iniquity of ...
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Men who , unmindful of their relation to you as brethren , of your long implicit
submission to their laws ; of the sacrifice which you and your forefathers made of
your natural advantages for commerce to their avarice , formed a deliberate plan
to ...
Men who , unmindful of their relation to you as brethren , of your long implicit
submission to their laws ; of the sacrifice which you and your forefathers made of
your natural advantages for commerce to their avarice , formed a deliberate plan
to ...
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Give me leave to say something of the nature of the government , and to show
that it is perfectly safe and just to vest it with the power of taxation . There are a
number of opinions ; but the principal question is , whether it be a federal or a ...
Give me leave to say something of the nature of the government , and to show
that it is perfectly safe and just to vest it with the power of taxation . There are a
number of opinions ; but the principal question is , whether it be a federal or a ...
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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.
... 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.
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The heaven - descending injunction , “ Know thyself , " still speaks to an ignorant
world from the distant letters of gold at Delphi — know thyself ; know that the
moral nature is the most noble part of man ; transcending far that part which is the
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The heaven - descending injunction , “ Know thyself , " still speaks to an ignorant
world from the distant letters of gold at Delphi — know thyself ; know that the
moral nature is the most noble part of man ; transcending far that part which is the
...
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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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