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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... offer examples of oratory selected from the choicest orations on record in every field ; chosen alike from the stars of the first magnitude in this art and those ESESSION JAMES FOX DELIVERING HIS GREAT SPEECH In 1774 this.
... offer examples of oratory selected from the choicest orations on record in every field ; chosen alike from the stars of the first magnitude in this art and those ESESSION JAMES FOX DELIVERING HIS GREAT SPEECH In 1774 this.
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... offered a set of resolutions setting forth that the Stamp Act and all acts of Parliament affecting the Colonies were contrary to the Constitution , and therefore null and void , and that the Burgesses and Governor alone had the right to ...
... offered a set of resolutions setting forth that the Stamp Act and all acts of Parliament affecting the Colonies were contrary to the Constitution , and therefore null and void , and that the Burgesses and Governor alone had the right to ...
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... offered him the position of Secretary of State , which he declined . The following year he was again elected Governor of Virginia , which posi- tion he also declined . During the exciting events of 1798 and 1799 he once more entered the ...
... offered him the position of Secretary of State , which he declined . The following year he was again elected Governor of Virginia , which posi- tion he also declined . During the exciting events of 1798 and 1799 he once more entered the ...
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... offer from these an illustrative extract describing the character of the proposed new government . ] 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 ...
... offer from these an illustrative extract describing the character of the proposed new government . ] 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 ...
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... offer a selection from his cele- brated argument in the trial for murder of John K. Knapp . In the passage given he soars far above the dry level of legal oratory , and depicts the effect of conscience on the mind of the murderer in ...
... offer a selection from his cele- brated argument in the trial for murder of John K. Knapp . In the passage given he soars far above the dry level of legal oratory , and depicts the effect of conscience on the mind of the murderer in ...
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