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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... tion would be overflowing with oratorical productions of high merit . Yet such a conclusion would be by no means a safe one . When we come to consider the abundant examples of oratory on record , it is to find the pure gold of eloquence ...
... tion would be overflowing with oratorical productions of high merit . Yet such a conclusion would be by no means a safe one . When we come to consider the abundant examples of oratory on record , it is to find the pure gold of eloquence ...
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... tion he was Governor of Virginia and again from 1784 to 1786 , poverty forcing him to decline other elections and return to his legal practice . In 1788 he opposed the new Constitution , being a strong advocate of State independence ...
... tion he was Governor of Virginia and again from 1784 to 1786 , poverty forcing him to decline other elections and return to his legal practice . In 1788 he opposed the new Constitution , being a strong advocate of State independence ...
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... tion and death mark their bloody career ; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from heaven : " Will you permit our posterity to groan under the galling chains of our murderers ? Has our blood ...
... tion and death mark their bloody career ; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from heaven : " Will you permit our posterity to groan under the galling chains of our murderers ? Has our blood ...
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... tion that all men are created equal . Now we are engaged in a great civil war , testing whether that nation , or any nation so conceived and so dedi- cated , can long endure . We are met on a great battlefield of that war . We are met ...
... tion that all men are created equal . Now we are engaged in a great civil war , testing whether that nation , or any nation so conceived and so dedi- cated , can long endure . We are met on a great battlefield of that war . We are met ...
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... cultiva- tion . Superior to Webster in scholarship , he was not his equal in native powers of oratory , or in the art of moving men's minds . Yet 142 CHARLES SUMNER his influence in the councils of the 141 Charles Sumner 141.
... cultiva- tion . Superior to Webster in scholarship , he was not his equal in native powers of oratory , or in the art of moving men's minds . Yet 142 CHARLES SUMNER his influence in the councils of the 141 Charles Sumner 141.
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