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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While carefully chosen selections from notable speeches have been made , in evidence of the quality of thought and mode of expression of each person dealt with , there ...
While carefully chosen selections from notable speeches have been made , in evidence of the quality of thought and mode of expression of each person dealt with , there ...
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In making selections from the store at command 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 ...
In making selections from the store at command 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 ...
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... that produced the earliest outburst of American oratory , due to such masters of the art as Henry , Otis , Ames , Hamilton and their contemporaries , and it is from this epoch , therefore , that our first selections are drawn .
... that produced the earliest outburst of American oratory , due to such masters of the art as Henry , Otis , Ames , Hamilton and their contemporaries , and it is from this epoch , therefore , that our first selections are drawn .
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THE SECRET OF MURDER [ As an example of Webster's forensic oratory we offer a selection from his celebrated argument in the trial for murder of John K. Knapp . In the passage given he soars far above the dry level of legal oratory ...
THE SECRET OF MURDER [ As an example of Webster's forensic oratory we offer a selection from his celebrated argument in the trial for murder of John K. Knapp . In the passage given he soars far above the dry level of legal oratory ...
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In selecting fronı his many speeches , however , we go back to that period after the war , wlien the question of amnesty for the South was before Congress , and give Schurz's eloquent and humane views upon this subject .
In selecting fronı his many speeches , however , we go back to that period after the war , wlien the question of amnesty for the South was before Congress , and give Schurz's eloquent and humane views upon this subject .
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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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