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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Page 37
If there is any man so base or so weak as to prefer a dependence on Great
Britain , to the dignity and happiness of living a member of a free and
independent nation , let me tell him that necessity now demands what the
generous principle of ...
If there is any man so base or so weak as to prefer a dependence on Great
Britain , to the dignity and happiness of living a member of a free and
independent nation , let me tell him that necessity now demands what the
generous principle of ...
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What those universities , with all their colleges and halls teeming with scholars for
six hundred years , have done for the progress of civilization and the good of men
, this whole evening could not begin to tell . Even your imaginations cannot ...
What those universities , with all their colleges and halls teeming with scholars for
six hundred years , have done for the progress of civilization and the good of men
, this whole evening could not begin to tell . Even your imaginations cannot ...
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If they tell us that the gold standard is the standard of civilization , we reply to
them that this , the most enlightened of all the ... More than that ; we can tell them
that they will search the pages of history in vain to find a single instance where
the ...
If they tell us that the gold standard is the standard of civilization , we reply to
them that this , the most enlightened of all the ... More than that ; we can tell them
that they will search the pages of history in vain to find a single instance where
the ...
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Men tell us he was religious , and in proof declare that he read the Bible ; thought
Job a great epic poem ; quoted Habakkuk from memory , and knew hymns by
heart ; and latterly agreed with a New Hampshire divine in all the doctrines of a ...
Men tell us he was religious , and in proof declare that he read the Bible ; thought
Job a great epic poem ; quoted Habakkuk from memory , and knew hymns by
heart ; and latterly agreed with a New Hampshire divine in all the doctrines of a ...
Page 273
The very earth was no longer solid . . The first feeling was the least . Men waited
to get straight to feel . They wandered in the streets as if groping after some
impending dread , or undeveloped sorrow , or someone to tell them what ailed
them .
The very earth was no longer solid . . The first feeling was the least . Men waited
to get straight to feel . They wandered in the streets as if groping after some
impending dread , or undeveloped sorrow , or someone to tell them what ailed
them .
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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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