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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CONTENTS ix PAGE Frederick Douglass Free Speech in Boston Henry Winter Davis The Peril of the Republic William M. Evarts A Weak Spot in the American System Schuyler Colfax The Confiscation of Slave Property James A. Garfield The Evil ...
CONTENTS ix PAGE Frederick Douglass Free Speech in Boston Henry Winter Davis The Peril of the Republic William M. Evarts A Weak Spot in the American System Schuyler Colfax The Confiscation of Slave Property James A. Garfield The Evil ...
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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 .
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 .
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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 , and ...
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 , and ...
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... 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 of a high and original type he possessed .
... 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 of a high and original type he possessed .
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... 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 , by his virtuous genius , in art , in literature , in science , the hours ...
... 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 , by his virtuous genius , in art , in literature , in science , the hours ...
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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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