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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... speech , and the audience before which it was delivered , is found with every great oration . A Great Variety of Oratory Represented Including famous Political orations ; wonderful pulpit sermons ; delightful after- dinner speeches ...
... speech , and the audience before which it was delivered , is found with every great oration . A Great Variety of Oratory Represented Including famous Political orations ; wonderful pulpit sermons ; delightful after- dinner speeches ...
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... speech and some degree of self - confidence on the part of the speaker . It has , therefore , been practiced for ages past , as well among savage and barbarous tribes as among civilized peoples , in evidence of which may be mentioned ...
... speech and some degree of self - confidence on the part of the speaker . It has , therefore , been practiced for ages past , as well among savage and barbarous tribes as among civilized peoples , in evidence of which may be mentioned ...
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... speech - making and give its just pre - eminence to the truly great oration . From what is above said it should be evident that the powers of the orator are not alone those of pure reasoning , of logic reduced to its finest elements ...
... speech - making and give its just pre - eminence to the truly great oration . From what is above said it should be evident that the powers of the orator are not alone those of pure reasoning , of logic reduced to its finest elements ...
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... speech and argument , every device to add to the strength of his client's case and lessen that of his opponent . But ordinarily the orator , partisan though he may be , has a wider audience than a jury , and a higher sense of duty to ...
... speech and argument , every device to add to the strength of his client's case and lessen that of his opponent . But ordinarily the orator , partisan though he may be , has a wider audience than a jury , and a higher sense of duty to ...
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... speeches have been made , in evidence of the quality of thought and mode of expression of each person dealt with , there has also been an endeavor to give a living impression of his personality . For this purpose a ... SPEECH In 1774 this.
... speeches have been made , in evidence of the quality of thought and mode of expression of each person dealt with , there has also been an endeavor to give a living impression of his personality . For this purpose a ... SPEECH In 1774 this.
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