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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... opinions of a character very opposite to theirs , I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve . This is no time for ceremony . The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country . For my own part , I ...
... opinions of a character very opposite to theirs , I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve . This is no time for ceremony . The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country . For my own part , I ...
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... opinions ; but the principal question is , whether it be a federal or a consolidated government . In order to judge properly of the question before us , we must consider it minutely , in its principal parts . I myself conceive that it ...
... opinions ; but the principal question is , whether it be a federal or a consolidated government . In order to judge properly of the question before us , we must consider it minutely , in its principal parts . I myself conceive that it ...
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... opinions ; I impeached no man's motives ; I charged no party , or State , or section of country with hostility to any other , but ventured , as I thought in a becoming spirit , to put forth my own sentiments in relation to a great ...
... opinions ; I impeached no man's motives ; I charged no party , or State , or section of country with hostility to any other , but ventured , as I thought in a becoming spirit , to put forth my own sentiments in relation to a great ...
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... opinion was as virulent in its way as had been that of the combat in the field . In all this was plentiful food for oratory . In the few years preceding the war , when the coming conflict impended over the land like a dark thunder cloud ...
... opinion was as virulent in its way as had been that of the combat in the field . In all this was plentiful food for oratory . In the few years preceding the war , when the coming conflict impended over the land like a dark thunder cloud ...
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... opinions and went with their State , Hill becom- ing a Confederate Senator , and Stephens Vice - President of the Con- federacy during its four eventful years . He had been a member of the National House of Representatives for sixteen ...
... opinions and went with their State , Hill becom- ing a Confederate Senator , and Stephens Vice - President of the Con- federacy during its four eventful years . He had been a member of the National House of Representatives for sixteen ...
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