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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... , 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 73.
... , 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 73.
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... 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 posterity will not hear that ...
... 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 posterity will not hear that ...
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... the people 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 , 120 Abraham Lincoln 120.
... the people 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 , 120 Abraham Lincoln 120.
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... reputation in the field of forensic eloquence . We need scarcely repeat the well - known fact that the President was acquitted , and that his advocate aided in the result through his legal acumen and deep knowledge of Constitutional law ...
... reputation in the field of forensic eloquence . We need scarcely repeat the well - known fact that the President was acquitted , and that his advocate aided in the result through his legal acumen and deep knowledge of Constitutional law ...
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... reputation of being one of the most eloquent men in the Upper House of Con- gress , we herewith present John Warwick Daniel to our readers . Born at Lynchburg , Virginia , in 1842 , and a boy at school when the Civil War began , he lost ...
... reputation of being one of the most eloquent men in the Upper House of Con- gress , we herewith present John Warwick Daniel to our readers . Born at Lynchburg , Virginia , in 1842 , and a boy at school when the Civil War began , he lost ...
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