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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... took prominent part . When night had fallen he rose and said : " This meeting can do nothing more to save the country . " These words seemed a signal , a war - whoop was heard at the door , and a party of men disguised as Indians rushed ...
... took prominent part . When night had fallen he rose and said : " This meeting can do nothing more to save the country . " These words seemed a signal , a war - whoop was heard at the door , and a party of men disguised as Indians rushed ...
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... took his seat as President . He continued in this high office for eight years , of which three were years of war . The remainder of his life was spent in rest and quiet . Madison was one of the most illustrious of the early American ...
... took his seat as President . He continued in this high office for eight years , of which three were years of war . The remainder of his life was spent in rest and quiet . Madison was one of the most illustrious of the early American ...
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... took different ground in 1832 and 1833 , during a period of excite- ment in the South against high tariff that yielded in South Carolina an attempt to nullify the United States tariff laws . Clay , in a speech in 1832 , showed vividly ...
... took different ground in 1832 and 1833 , during a period of excite- ment in the South against high tariff that yielded in South Carolina an attempt to nullify the United States tariff laws . Clay , in a speech in 1832 , showed vividly ...
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... took occasion , two days ago , to throw out some ideas with respect to the policy of the Government , in relation to the public lands , nothing certainly could have been further from my thoughts than that I should have been compelled ...
... took occasion , two days ago , to throw out some ideas with respect to the policy of the Government , in relation to the public lands , nothing certainly could have been further from my thoughts than that I should have been compelled ...
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... of the people of the United States . In 1858 took place that memorable contest for the Senatorship with Douglas to which he owed the national reputation which two ABRAHAM LINCOLN • 123 Fourscore and seven years ago , 120 Abraham Lincoln ...
... of the people of the United States . In 1858 took place that memorable contest for the Senatorship with Douglas to which he owed the national reputation which two ABRAHAM LINCOLN • 123 Fourscore and seven years ago , 120 Abraham Lincoln ...
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