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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... and usually deal with subjects of permanent interest in themselves — those
great occasions or events of history which never grow dull or stale , but retain
their freshness through the ages . CONTENTS PART I. AMERICAN ORATORS
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... and usually deal with subjects of permanent interest in themselves — those
great occasions or events of history which never grow dull or stale , but retain
their freshness through the ages . CONTENTS PART I. AMERICAN ORATORS
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The Sermon on the Mount Carl Schurz Amnesty for the Conquered Benjamin
Harrison Inaugural Address William McKinley The Agencies of Modern Prosperity
Albert J. Beveridge Eulogy of the Republican Party The Republic Never Retreats
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The Sermon on the Mount Carl Schurz Amnesty for the Conquered Benjamin
Harrison Inaugural Address William McKinley The Agencies of Modern Prosperity
Albert J. Beveridge Eulogy of the Republican Party The Republic Never Retreats
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Never had the old walls of Virginia's legislative hall rung with such mighty words
as those by which he supported his resolution , and his address ended with a
thunderbolt of defiant eloquence that startled the world . His vibrant voice rang
out ...
Never had the old walls of Virginia's legislative hall rung with such mighty words
as those by which he supported his resolution , and his address ended with a
thunderbolt of defiant eloquence that startled the world . His vibrant voice rang
out ...
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Not to speak of that eye which pierces through all disguises , and beholds
everything as in the splendor of noon ; such secrets of guilt are never safe from
detection , even by men . True it is , generally speaking , that " murder will out . "
True it is ...
Not to speak of that eye which pierces through all disguises , and beholds
everything as in the splendor of noon ; such secrets of guilt are never safe from
detection , even by men . True it is , generally speaking , that " murder will out . "
True it is ...
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The brave men , living asid dead , who struggled here , have consecrated it far
above our power to adil or detract . The world will little note , nor long remember ,
what we say here , but it can never forget what they did here . It is for us , the
living ...
The brave men , living asid dead , who struggled here , have consecrated it far
above our power to adil or detract . The world will little note , nor long remember ,
what we say here , but it can never forget what they did here . It is for us , the
living ...
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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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