Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... story was invented - it was because the truth was deeper than the fact . What we call in America " Stump Oratory " -oratory in its roughest and most familiar shape - still plays a great part - a part which hardly seems to lessen in its ...
... story was invented - it was because the truth was deeper than the fact . What we call in America " Stump Oratory " -oratory in its roughest and most familiar shape - still plays a great part - a part which hardly seems to lessen in its ...
Page xxiv
... a generation ago have been removed . And I do not know any course , so - called , which cares to attempt a lecture on the subject of tariff reform . Wendell Phillips used to tell an excellent story of his xxiv EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
... a generation ago have been removed . And I do not know any course , so - called , which cares to attempt a lecture on the subject of tariff reform . Wendell Phillips used to tell an excellent story of his xxiv EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
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... story of his own success in obtaining an audience for a subject which was unpopular . When he arrived at the city where he was announced as lecturer for the evening , he asked the committee whether they wanted him to deliver an anti ...
... story of his own success in obtaining an audience for a subject which was unpopular . When he arrived at the city where he was announced as lecturer for the evening , he asked the committee whether they wanted him to deliver an anti ...
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... story told me by a schoolmate , a nephew of the late Washington Allston , in reference to Mr. Edmund Dana . He was of short stature , and was walking the streets of London with a gentleman much taller than himself , when the latter was ...
... story told me by a schoolmate , a nephew of the late Washington Allston , in reference to Mr. Edmund Dana . He was of short stature , and was walking the streets of London with a gentleman much taller than himself , when the latter was ...
Page 64
... stories in an hour than any other man in a month , and so they send him up to make laws . [ Laughter . ] When they get there it would do your heart good just to go and look at them . You know what the duty of a regu lar Republican ...
... stories in an hour than any other man in a month , and so they send him up to make laws . [ Laughter . ] When they get there it would do your heart good just to go and look at them . You know what the duty of a regu lar Republican ...
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