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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... stands by itself . In some respects it is a government of a federal nature ; in others , it is of a consolidated ... standing what the honorable gentleman [ Patrick Henry ] has alleged , that this government is not completely ...
... stands by itself . In some respects it is a government of a federal nature ; in others , it is of a consolidated ... standing what the honorable gentleman [ Patrick Henry ] has alleged , that this government is not completely ...
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... stand pre - eminent in the development of oratory as in other respects . The first of these was the period of unrest and social and political turmoil which led to the war of the Revo- lution and to the formation of the Constitution ...
... stand pre - eminent in the development of oratory as in other respects . The first of these was the period of unrest and social and political turmoil which led to the war of the Revo- lution and to the formation of the Constitution ...
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... stands first on the roll of fame is his magnificent address of January 30 , 1830. The occasion for this famous display of oratory was a speech made by Robert Y. Hayne , of South Carolina , in which he affirmed the right of a State to ...
... stands first on the roll of fame is his magnificent address of January 30 , 1830. The occasion for this famous display of oratory was a speech made by Robert Y. Hayne , of South Carolina , in which he affirmed the right of a State to ...
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... is in its weakest part . Alas , for that rule ! But when the weakest part breaks , the whole is broken . The chain lets slip the ship when the weak link breaks , and the ship founders . JAMES G. BLAINE 165 " He will stand in our.
... is in its weakest part . Alas , for that rule ! But when the weakest part breaks , the whole is broken . The chain lets slip the ship when the weak link breaks , and the ship founders . JAMES G. BLAINE 165 " He will stand in our.
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... stand in our history as the ablest parliamentarian and most skillful debater of our congressional history . . . . No man during his active career has disputed with him his hold upon the popular imagi- nation and his leadership of his ...
... stand in our history as the ablest parliamentarian and most skillful debater of our congressional history . . . . No man during his active career has disputed with him his hold upon the popular imagi- nation and his leadership of his ...
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