Famous Orators of the World and Their Best OrationsJ. C. Winston Company, 1902 - 639 pages |
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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 his 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 his 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 For In the present work an effort has been made to do justice ...
... 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 For In the present work an effort has been made to do justice ...
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... True Grandeur of Nations 142 William H. Seward • 145 America's True Greatness 146 viii Frederick Douglass Free Speech in Boston Henry Winter Davis.
... True Grandeur of Nations 142 William H. Seward • 145 America's True Greatness 146 viii Frederick Douglass Free Speech in Boston Henry Winter Davis.
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... true , have filled the world with terror ; her troops have reaped the laurels of the field ; her fleets have rode triumphant on the sea : and when , or where , did you , my countrymen , depart inglorious from the field of fight ? You ...
... true , have filled the world with terror ; her troops have reaped the laurels of the field ; her fleets have rode triumphant on the sea : and when , or where , did you , my countrymen , depart inglorious from the field of fight ? You ...
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