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Among the problems now confronting the people are those of finance , labor ,
religion , conservation of natural resources , and civic justice . The questions are
here , but where are the orators capable of making those questions clear to the ...
Among the problems now confronting the people are those of finance , labor ,
religion , conservation of natural resources , and civic justice . The questions are
here , but where are the orators capable of making those questions clear to the ...
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After this clear reasoning comes another statement : “ Now I conceive it to be my
duty in the interest of justice to confute the slanders of Helen , the memory of
whose misfortunes has been kept alive by the writings of the poets and the fame
of ...
After this clear reasoning comes another statement : “ Now I conceive it to be my
duty in the interest of justice to confute the slanders of Helen , the memory of
whose misfortunes has been kept alive by the writings of the poets and the fame
of ...
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Now I conceive it to be my duty in the interest of justice to confute the slanders of
Helen , the memory of whose misfortunes has been kept alive by the writings of
the poets and the fame of her name . I propose , therefore , by argument to ...
Now I conceive it to be my duty in the interest of justice to confute the slanders of
Helen , the memory of whose misfortunes has been kept alive by the writings of
the poets and the fame of her name . I propose , therefore , by argument to ...
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It is plain to the bystanders and to all men that in the court Leptines is contending
with us , but in the mind of each of you jurymen generosity is arrayed against
envy , justice against iniquity , all that is virtuous against all that is base . The
above ...
It is plain to the bystanders and to all men that in the court Leptines is contending
with us , but in the mind of each of you jurymen generosity is arrayed against
envy , justice against iniquity , all that is virtuous against all that is base . The
above ...
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Was this the object of my ambition ; and is this the mode by which a tribunal of
justice reconciles contradictions ? No ! I am no emissary . ROBERT EMMET The
positive statement is , “ I am charged with being an emissary of France ” ; and the
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Was this the object of my ambition ; and is this the mode by which a tribunal of
justice reconciles contradictions ? No ! I am no emissary . ROBERT EMMET The
positive statement is , “ I am charged with being an emissary of France ” ; and the
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Page 19 - Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command...
Page 31 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 318 - I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Page 382 - But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know? The shudd'ring tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own...
Page 304 - What terms shall we find, which have not already been exhausted ? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the Ministry and Parliament. Our petitions...
Page 392 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 40 - THIS uncounted multitude before me, and around me, proves the feeling which the occasion has excited. These thousands of human faces, glowing with sympathy and joy, and, from the impulses of a common gratitude, turned reverently to heaven, in this spacious temple of the firmament, proclaim that the day, the place, and the purpose of our assembling have made a deep impression on our hearts.
Page 303 - This is no time for ceremony. The question before the house is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate.
Page 15 - But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the soul seeth not, when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
Page 318 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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| Title | How to Master the Spoken Word: Designed as a Self-instructor for All who Would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking |
| Author | Edwin Gordon Lawrence |
| Publisher | A. C. McClurg, 1913 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 420 pages |
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