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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... his skill in debate , and his controlling influence in political measures .
Endowed by nature with a voice of wonderful compass and rich harmony , fluent
in delivery 74 HENRY CLAY and graceful in gesture , his reputation 73 Henry
Clay.
... his skill in debate , and his controlling influence in political measures .
Endowed by nature with a voice of wonderful compass and rich harmony , fluent
in delivery 74 HENRY CLAY and graceful in gesture , his reputation 73 Henry
Clay.
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74 HENRY CLAY and graceful in gesture , his reputation soon spread from end
to end of the land . “ Take him for all in all , " says Parton , " we must regard him
as the first of American orators ; but posterity will not assign him that high rank ,
for ...
74 HENRY CLAY and graceful in gesture , his reputation soon spread from end
to end of the land . “ Take him for all in all , " says Parton , " we must regard him
as the first of American orators ; but posterity will not assign him that high rank ,
for ...
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... of the United States . In 1858 took place that memorable contest for the
Senatorship with Douglas to which he owed the national reputation which two
ABRAHAM LINCOLN 123 Fourscore and seven years ago , our 120 Abraham
Lincoln I 20.
... of the United States . In 1858 took place that memorable contest for the
Senatorship with Douglas to which he owed the national reputation which two
ABRAHAM LINCOLN 123 Fourscore and seven years ago , our 120 Abraham
Lincoln I 20.
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Prominent among those who took part and chief counsel for the President , was
William Maxwell Evarts , the most brilliant legal light of the New York bar , and a
man of national reputation in the field of forensic eloquence . We need scarcely ...
Prominent among those who took part and chief counsel for the President , was
William Maxwell Evarts , the most brilliant legal light of the New York bar , and a
man of national reputation in the field of forensic eloquence . We need scarcely ...
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JOHN W. DANIEL ( 1842- ) A VIRGINIA ORATOR AND STATESMAN F ORTY
years ago a private in Stonewall Jackson's brigade , and to - day an United
States Senator , with the reputation of being one of the most eloquent men in the
Upper ...
JOHN W. DANIEL ( 1842- ) A VIRGINIA ORATOR AND STATESMAN F ORTY
years ago a private in Stonewall Jackson's brigade , and to - day an United
States Senator , with the reputation of being one of the most eloquent men in the
Upper ...
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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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