Modern Eloquence, Volume 7Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page xxii
... century of our era before eloquence revived in the oratory of the Greek and Latin fathers of the Christian Church . It had a character of its own , the outgrowth of the new faith which it defended and promulgated . Athanasius ...
... century of our era before eloquence revived in the oratory of the Greek and Latin fathers of the Christian Church . It had a character of its own , the outgrowth of the new faith which it defended and promulgated . Athanasius ...
Page xxv
... century a brilliant epoch in the history of public speech . It was two centuries before anything to be compared with this period arose , and unlike it at that . In the first flush of victory the oratory of the French Revolution was a ...
... century a brilliant epoch in the history of public speech . It was two centuries before anything to be compared with this period arose , and unlike it at that . In the first flush of victory the oratory of the French Revolution was a ...
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... century , now coming to an end , early reversed the judgment of the King's Commission which doomed Rob- ert Emmet to death . About his times have gathered the masters of song and fable , and the cheap framework of useless lumber upon ...
... century , now coming to an end , early reversed the judgment of the King's Commission which doomed Rob- ert Emmet to death . About his times have gathered the masters of song and fable , and the cheap framework of useless lumber upon ...
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