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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... true merit of the really great effort grows doubly apparent . No longer taken captive by the speaker's manner and the external aids to eloquence , the reader can calmly measure and weigh 1.is words and thoughts , with competence to ...
... true merit of the really great effort grows doubly apparent . No longer taken captive by the speaker's manner and the external aids to eloquence , the reader can calmly measure and weigh 1.is words and thoughts , with competence to ...
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... true to a judicious reader is defective either in its cause or its advocate . Sophistry may weigh well on the plat- form , but it becomes hollow and empty in the cabinet , and the merit of no oration can be justly decided upon until it ...
... true to a judicious reader is defective either in its cause or its advocate . Sophistry may weigh well on the plat- form , but it becomes hollow and empty in the cabinet , and the merit of no oration can be justly decided upon until it ...
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... true merit of an oration until he has read it , and the really great orations can be enjoyed by the reader centuries even after they were delivered . THE PURPOSE OF THIS WORK In the present work an effort has been made to do justice to ...
... true merit of an oration until he has read it , and the really great orations can be enjoyed by the reader centuries even after they were delivered . THE PURPOSE OF THIS WORK In the present work an effort has been made to do justice to ...
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... True Grandeur of Nations 142 William H. Seward .. 145 America's True Greatness 146 CONTENTS Frederick Douglass Free Speech in Boston . Henry Winter.
... True Grandeur of Nations 142 William H. Seward .. 145 America's True Greatness 146 CONTENTS Frederick Douglass Free Speech in Boston . Henry Winter.
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... true motto of his character : " I would rather be right than be President . " THE AMERICAN SYSTEM [ Clay , who had argued strongly in favor of a protective tariff during the spirited discussion in 1824 , took different ground in 1832 ...
... true motto of his character : " I would rather be right than be President . " THE AMERICAN SYSTEM [ Clay , who had argued strongly in favor of a protective tariff during the spirited discussion in 1824 , took different ground in 1832 ...
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