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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... Speaking . 452 453 BOOK III . ENGLISH ORATORS OF THE MIDDLE PERIOD Francis Bacon . The Evils of Dueling Sir Edward Coke The Charges in Raleigh's Case . Sir John Eliot . John Pym Law the Basis of Liberty Oliver Cromwell . The Perils of ...
... Speaking . 452 453 BOOK III . ENGLISH ORATORS OF THE MIDDLE PERIOD Francis Bacon . The Evils of Dueling Sir Edward Coke The Charges in Raleigh's Case . Sir John Eliot . John Pym Law the Basis of Liberty Oliver Cromwell . The Perils of ...
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... speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve . This is no time for ceremony . The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country . For my own part , I consider it as nothing less than a ques- tion of freedom or ...
... speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve . This is no time for ceremony . The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country . For my own part , I consider it as nothing less than a ques- tion of freedom or ...
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... speak of that eye which pierces through all disguises , and beholds everything as in the splendor of noon ; such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection , even by men . True it is , generally speaking , that " murder will out ...
... speak of that eye which pierces through all disguises , and beholds everything as in the splendor of noon ; such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection , even by men . True it is , generally speaking , that " murder will out ...
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... speak . He was warm - hearted ; he was generous ; he was magnanimous ; he was most truly , as he afterwards said on a memorable occasion , " with malice toward none , with charity for all . " He had a native genius far above his fellows ...
... speak . He was warm - hearted ; he was generous ; he was magnanimous ; he was most truly , as he afterwards said on a memorable occasion , " with malice toward none , with charity for all . " He had a native genius far above his fellows ...
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... speak of them as the extreme measures that parties in politics , and under whatever motives , may be disposed to adopt . Certainly , then , there is ground to pause and consider , before you bring to a determination this great struggle ...
... speak of them as the extreme measures that parties in politics , and under whatever motives , may be disposed to adopt . Certainly , then , there is ground to pause and consider , before you bring to a determination this great struggle ...
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