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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... rule , a result of the incitement of some stirring contingency , some mighty crisis which can be justly dealt with only by the highest powers of thought and which is apt to arouse the orator to the utmost exercise of his faculties . In ...
... rule , a result of the incitement of some stirring contingency , some mighty crisis which can be justly dealt with only by the highest powers of thought and which is apt to arouse the orator to the utmost exercise of his faculties . In ...
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... Rule for Ireland . John Bright The Crushing Weight of Militarism 543 • 544 547 548 551 553 553 Charles S. Parnell Evictions and Emigration Joseph Chamberlain 557- 558 560 The Anomalies of the Suffrage 561 xvi CONTENTS BOOK VI . THE ...
... Rule for Ireland . John Bright The Crushing Weight of Militarism 543 • 544 547 548 551 553 553 Charles S. Parnell Evictions and Emigration Joseph Chamberlain 557- 558 560 The Anomalies of the Suffrage 561 xvi CONTENTS BOOK VI . THE ...
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... rule over you are they who , in pursuit of this plan of despotism , annulled the sacred contracts which had been made with your ancestors ; conveyed into your cities a mercenary soldiery to compel you to submission by insult and murder ...
... rule over you are they who , in pursuit of this plan of despotism , annulled the sacred contracts which had been made with your ancestors ; conveyed into your cities a mercenary soldiery to compel you to submission by insult and murder ...
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... is in its weakest part . Alas , for that rule ! But when the weakest part breaks , the whole is broken . The chain lets slip the ship when the weak link breaks , and the ship founders . JAMES G. BLAINE 165 " He will stand in our.
... is in its weakest part . Alas , for that rule ! But when the weakest part breaks , the whole is broken . The chain lets slip the ship when the weak link breaks , and the ship founders . JAMES G. BLAINE 165 " He will stand in our.
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... rule us all were first successfully disputed , they resolved to destroy this republic , and to build up on the corner - stone of slavery an empire of their own , in which they could hold absolute sway . They made the attempt with the ...
... rule us all were first successfully disputed , they resolved to destroy this republic , and to build up on the corner - stone of slavery an empire of their own , in which they could hold absolute sway . They made the attempt with the ...
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