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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Frederick Douglass Free Speech in Boston Henry Winter Davis The Peril of the
Republic William M. Evarts A Weak Spot in the American System Schuyler Colfax
The Confiscation of Slave Property James A. Garfield The Evil Spirit of Disloyalty
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Frederick Douglass Free Speech in Boston Henry Winter Davis The Peril of the
Republic William M. Evarts A Weak Spot in the American System Schuyler Colfax
The Confiscation of Slave Property James A. Garfield The Evil Spirit of Disloyalty
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... the Art of Poetry Alphonse de Lamartine What is the French Revolution ?
Safety only in the Republic 607 608 610 611 612 CONTENTS Xvi PAGB Louis
Adolphe Thiers . The Wastefulness of PAGE.
... the Art of Poetry Alphonse de Lamartine What is the French Revolution ?
Safety only in the Republic 607 608 610 611 612 CONTENTS Xvi PAGB Louis
Adolphe Thiers . The Wastefulness of PAGE.
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The first such occasion in American history was that exciting era which gave birth
to the American Republic . It is the stirring events of this historymaking epoch that
produced the earliest outburst of American oratory , due to such masters of the ...
The first such occasion in American history was that exciting era which gave birth
to the American Republic . It is the stirring events of this historymaking epoch that
produced the earliest outburst of American oratory , due to such masters of the ...
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HENRY CLAY ( 1777–1852 ) THE PEOPLE'S FAVORITE I N those days of tariff
and slavery agitation , when all seemed at risk in the great Republic of the West ,
the noble figure of Henry Clay stood in the front rank of the patriots who fought ...
HENRY CLAY ( 1777–1852 ) THE PEOPLE'S FAVORITE I N those days of tariff
and slavery agitation , when all seemed at risk in the great Republic of the West ,
the noble figure of Henry Clay stood in the front rank of the patriots who fought ...
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Let their last feeble and lingering glance , rather , behold the gorgeous ensign of
the republic , now known and honored throughout the earth , still full high
advanced , its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre , not a stripe
erased or ...
Let their last feeble and lingering glance , rather , behold the gorgeous ensign of
the republic , now known and honored throughout the earth , still full high
advanced , its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre , not a stripe
erased or ...
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