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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... passing interest , rarely appealing even at the time to more than a few persons , and seldom having a message to ... passed . These are the two extremes between which it is necessary to choose . DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THIS BOOK It ...
... passing interest , rarely appealing even at the time to more than a few persons , and seldom having a message to ... passed . These are the two extremes between which it is necessary to choose . DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THIS BOOK It ...
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... passing him on to the committee of another , the hurrahs of one town dying away as those of the next caught his ear . " How did this man win such high esteem ? He began life hum- bly enough , working on a Virginia farm to aid his ...
... passing him on to the committee of another , the hurrahs of one town dying away as those of the next caught his ear . " How did this man win such high esteem ? He began life hum- bly enough , working on a Virginia farm to aid his ...
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... passed against their advice , they yielded their own 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 ...
... passed against their advice , they yielded their own 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 ...
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... passing the limits of debate and argument , and entering the arena of physical force . Injured as he was , Sumner was not disarmed . On his return to the Senate in 1859 , his unrelenting hostility to the " peculiar institution " was ...
... passing the limits of debate and argument , and entering the arena of physical force . Injured as he was , Sumner was not disarmed . On his return to the Senate in 1859 , his unrelenting hostility to the " peculiar institution " was ...
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... passed in acts of force , who renounces the great law of Christian brotherhood ; whose vocation is blood ; who triumphs in battle over his fellow - men . Well may old Sir Thomas Browne exclaim : " The world does not know its greatest ...
... passed in acts of force , who renounces the great law of Christian brotherhood ; whose vocation is blood ; who triumphs in battle over his fellow - men . Well may old Sir Thomas Browne exclaim : " The world does not know its greatest ...
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