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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... seemed irrefutable arguments are exposed . For this reason it may be held that no one should decide as to the true merit of an oration until he has read it , and the really great orations can be enjoyed by the reader centuries even ...
... seemed irrefutable arguments are exposed . For this reason it may be held that no one should decide as to the true merit of an oration until he has read it , and the really great orations can be enjoyed by the reader centuries even ...
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... seemed when the occasion served . The legal oration , for example , is usually of passing interest , rarely appealing even at the time to more than a few persons , and seldom having a message to deliver to the world . The parliamentary ...
... seemed when the occasion served . The legal oration , for example , is usually of passing interest , rarely appealing even at the time to more than a few persons , and seldom having a message to deliver to the world . The parliamentary ...
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... seemed a signal , a war - whoop was heard at the door , and a party of men disguised as Indians rushed impetuously to the wharf , boarded the ships , and flung the tea to the fishes of the harbor . This event and the action of the king ...
... seemed a signal , a war - whoop was heard at the door , and a party of men disguised as Indians rushed impetuously to the wharf , boarded the ships , and flung the tea to the fishes of the harbor . This event and the action of the king ...
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... seemed at risk in the great Republic of the West , the noble figure of Henry Clay stood in the front rank of the patriots who fought against the forces of disunion ; not towering , like Webster , in heroic defiance of the foes of the ...
... seemed at risk in the great Republic of the West , the noble figure of Henry Clay stood in the front rank of the patriots who fought against the forces of disunion ; not towering , like Webster , in heroic defiance of the foes of the ...
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... seemed very fitting and proper ; now , at the expiration of four years , during which public declarations have constantly been called forth concerning every point and place of the great contest which still absorbs attention and ...
... seemed very fitting and proper ; now , at the expiration of four years , during which public declarations have constantly been called forth concerning every point and place of the great contest which still absorbs attention and ...
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