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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... question at issue . He is the counter- part , not of the judge — who calmly and logically weighs the two sides of the case to be decided and seeks to avoid preference to either - but of the advocate , whose aim it is to convince the ...
... question at issue . He is the counter- part , not of the judge — who calmly and logically weighs the two sides of the case to be decided and seeks to avoid preference to either - but of the advocate , whose aim it is to convince the ...
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... questions of govern- ment , political and national relations and the inherent rights of man , is apt to have a perennial hold upon the human mind , keeping its interest fresh even after centuries have passed . These are the two extremes ...
... questions of govern- ment , political and national relations and the inherent rights of man , is apt to have a perennial hold upon the human mind , keeping its interest fresh even after centuries have passed . These are the two extremes ...
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... were uncompromising in their advocacy of popular rtghts . Their printed orations occupy many volumes and cover all the great questions of nearly a century . FERORCY US HOZZASICS EXXE HENRY CLAY ADDRESSING THE UNITED STATES.
... were uncompromising in their advocacy of popular rtghts . Their printed orations occupy many volumes and cover all the great questions of nearly a century . FERORCY US HOZZASICS EXXE HENRY CLAY ADDRESSING THE UNITED STATES.
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... question before the House is one of awful moment to this country . For my own part , I consider it as nothing less than a ques- tion of freedom or slavery ; and in proportion to the magnitude of the sub- ject ought to be the freedom of ...
... question before the House is one of awful moment to this country . For my own part , I consider it as nothing less than a ques- tion of freedom or slavery ; and in proportion to the magnitude of the sub- ject ought to be the freedom of ...
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... 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 is of a mixed nature ; it is ...
... 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 is of a mixed nature ; it is ...
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