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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... A Weak Spot in the American System Schuyler Colfax The Confiscation of
Slave Property James A. Garfield The Evil Spirit of Disloyalty James G. Blaine A
Eulogy of Garfield 148 149 151 152 154 155 157 158 160 161 164 165 BOOK IV
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... A Weak Spot in the American System Schuyler Colfax The Confiscation of
Slave Property James A. Garfield The Evil Spirit of Disloyalty James G. Blaine A
Eulogy of Garfield 148 149 151 152 154 155 157 158 160 161 164 165 BOOK IV
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Arraignment of Warren Hastings William
Wilberforce Abolition of the Slave Trade William Pitt . The Peril from France
Robert Emmet . . A Patriot's Plea 496 496 500 501 502 503 505 506 BOOK V.
ORATORS OF ...
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Arraignment of Warren Hastings William
Wilberforce Abolition of the Slave Trade William Pitt . The Peril from France
Robert Emmet . . A Patriot's Plea 496 496 500 501 502 503 505 506 BOOK V.
ORATORS OF ...
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... your piety , hypocrisy . Countrymen ! the men who now invite you to surrender
your rights into their hands are the men who have let loose the merciless
savages to riot in the blood of their brethren , who have taught treachery to your
slaves ...
... your piety , hypocrisy . Countrymen ! the men who now invite you to surrender
your rights into their hands are the men who have let loose the merciless
savages to riot in the blood of their brethren , who have taught treachery to your
slaves ...
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... gentle - natured Abraham Lincoln , the earnest , honest , genial Father
Abraham of slave and freemen alike . Lincoln in the fullest sense began life at the
bottom and climbed to the top . Where he got his genius it is not easy to say , but
genius ...
... gentle - natured Abraham Lincoln , the earnest , honest , genial Father
Abraham of slave and freemen alike . Lincoln in the fullest sense began life at the
bottom and climbed to the top . Where he got his genius it is not easy to say , but
genius ...
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... who dries the tears of sorrow ; who pours oil into the wounds of the unfortunate
; who feeds the hungry and clothes the naked ; who unlooses the fetters of the
slave ; who does justice ; who enlightens the ignorant ; who enlivens and exalts ...
... who dries the tears of sorrow ; who pours oil into the wounds of the unfortunate
; who feeds the hungry and clothes the naked ; who unlooses the fetters of the
slave ; who does justice ; who enlightens the ignorant ; who enlivens and exalts ...
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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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