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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... tell him that necessity now demands what the generous principle of patriotism should have dictated . We have now no other alternative than independence , or the most ignominious and gall- ing servitude . The legions of our enemies ...
... tell him that necessity now demands what the generous principle of patriotism should have dictated . We have now no other alternative than independence , or the most ignominious and gall- ing servitude . The legions of our enemies ...
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... telling speech , than which we can offer no more characteristic example of his style of oratory . Its occasion gave the cue to its character , which is that of an ardent eulogy of the Republican party , of whose principles Mr. Beveridge ...
... telling speech , than which we can offer no more characteristic example of his style of oratory . Its occasion gave the cue to its character , which is that of an ardent eulogy of the Republican party , of whose principles Mr. Beveridge ...
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... tell . Even your imaginations cannot , at this moment , create the surprising picture . Nevertheless , the institution at which most of you are , or have been , pupils is at the beginning of a career with which those great univer ...
... tell . Even your imaginations cannot , at this moment , create the surprising picture . Nevertheless , the institution at which most of you are , or have been , pupils is at the beginning of a career with which those great univer ...
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... tell us that the gold standard is the standard of civilization , we reply to them that this , the most enlightened of all the nations of the earth , has never declared for a gold standard and that both the great par- ties this year are ...
... tell us that the gold standard is the standard of civilization , we reply to them that this , the most enlightened of all the nations of the earth , has never declared for a gold standard and that both the great par- ties this year are ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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