The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 10F.P. Kaiser, 1899 - 111 pages The text of thousands of speeches from all historical periods through the 19th century arranged in alphabetical order. |
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Page 3682
... sages , and cemented by the blood of so many martyrs and heroes - hastens now , day by day , to its fall . What recks he , or that other great man , his compeer , fortunate in life and opportune alike in death , whose dust they keep at ...
... sages , and cemented by the blood of so many martyrs and heroes - hastens now , day by day , to its fall . What recks he , or that other great man , his compeer , fortunate in life and opportune alike in death , whose dust they keep at ...
Page 3877
... sage from God to all men , but to you above all . For above forty years I have been a servant to you and to your fathers . And I have not been as a reed shaken with the wind ; I have not varied in my testimony . I have testified to you ...
... sage from God to all men , but to you above all . For above forty years I have been a servant to you and to your fathers . And I have not been as a reed shaken with the wind ; I have not varied in my testimony . I have testified to you ...
Page 3906
... sage of Quincy on the same day , I appeal to yourselves , - is there a voice that was not hushed , is there a heart that did not quail , at this close manifestation of the hand of heaven in our affairs ? Philosophy , recovered of her ...
... sage of Quincy on the same day , I appeal to yourselves , - is there a voice that was not hushed , is there a heart that did not quail , at this close manifestation of the hand of heaven in our affairs ? Philosophy , recovered of her ...
Page 3942
... , endeavor in like manner to disparage his glory and ex- tol my own . I shall do neither , conscript fath- ers ; but young as I am , I will show that I excel that sage , if in nothing else , yet 3942 NOTED SAYINGS AND CELEBRATED PASSAGES.
... , endeavor in like manner to disparage his glory and ex- tol my own . I shall do neither , conscript fath- ers ; but young as I am , I will show that I excel that sage , if in nothing else , yet 3942 NOTED SAYINGS AND CELEBRATED PASSAGES.
Page 3943
... sage , if in nothing else , yet certainly in modesty and temperance of language . Such has been my life and conduct , that I can , in silence , rest perfectly satisfied with that char- acter which your own judgments have formed of me ...
... sage , if in nothing else , yet certainly in modesty and temperance of language . Such has been my life and conduct , that I can , in silence , rest perfectly satisfied with that char- acter which your own judgments have formed of me ...
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