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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... selections from notable speeches have been made , in evidence of the quality of thought and mode of expression of ... selected from the choicest orations on record in every field ; chosen alike from the stars of the first magnitude in ...
... selections from notable speeches have been made , in evidence of the quality of thought and mode of expression of ... selected from the choicest orations on record in every field ; chosen alike from the stars of the first magnitude in ...
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... selections from the store at com- mand the subject as well as the manner needs to be carefully considered , matters of local or temporary character losing their force and potency as time goes on , however effective they may have seemed ...
... selections from the store at com- mand the subject as well as the manner needs to be carefully considered , matters of local or temporary character losing their force and potency as time goes on , however effective they may have seemed ...
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... such masters of the art as Henry , Otis , Ames , Hamilton and their contempora ries , and it is from this epoch , therefore , that our first selections are drawn . PATRICK HENRY ( 1736-1799 ) THE BEACON - LIGHT OF 18.
... such masters of the art as Henry , Otis , Ames , Hamilton and their contempora ries , and it is from this epoch , therefore , that our first selections are drawn . PATRICK HENRY ( 1736-1799 ) THE BEACON - LIGHT OF 18.
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... selection from his cele- brated argument in the trial for murder of John K. Knapp . In the passage given he soars far above the dry level of legal oratory , and depicts the effect of conscience on the mind of the murderer in sentences ...
... selection from his cele- brated argument in the trial for murder of John K. Knapp . In the passage given he soars far above the dry level of legal oratory , and depicts the effect of conscience on the mind of the murderer in sentences ...
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... selecting from his many speeches , however , we go back to that period after the war , when the question of amnesty for the South was before Congress , and give Schurz's eloquent and humane views upon this subject . The contrast which ...
... selecting from his many speeches , however , we go back to that period after the war , when the question of amnesty for the South was before Congress , and give Schurz's eloquent and humane views upon this subject . The contrast which ...
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