Famous Orators of the World and Their Best Orations: Containing the Lives of the Greatest Orators and Their Best Orations from Earliest Times to Present Day, with an Account of Place and Time of Delivery of Each Oration and Explanatory Notes on Obscure Passages : Arranged in Eighteen Great Epochs Or Books1902 |
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... Congress during the war , and after- wards remained a prominent figure in Massachusetts politics , being Governor from 1795 to 1797. He died in 1803 at a good old age . THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE [ The only extant speech of Samuel ...
... Congress during the war , and after- wards remained a prominent figure in Massachusetts politics , being Governor from 1795 to 1797. He died in 1803 at a good old age . THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE [ The only extant speech of Samuel ...
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... Congress and in the Virginia Legislature , Madison became Secretary of State under Jefferson , and in 1809 took his seat as President . He continued in this high office for eight years , of which three were years of war . The remainder ...
... Congress and in the Virginia Legislature , Madison became Secretary of State under Jefferson , and in 1809 took his seat as President . He continued in this high office for eight years , of which three were years of war . The remainder ...
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... Congress rang with arguments of fiery contestants ; and ending . in actual war when logic and argument had failed to smooth the waves of hostile feeling . This period has been well denominated " The Golden Age of American Oratory . " It ...
... Congress rang with arguments of fiery contestants ; and ending . in actual war when logic and argument had failed to smooth the waves of hostile feeling . This period has been well denominated " The Golden Age of American Oratory . " It ...
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... Congress , his broad spirit of conciliation went far to tide the Union over the danger points in its career . Three great compromise measures were engineered by him - the Missouri Compro- mise of 1820 , the Tariff Compromise of 1833 ...
... Congress , his broad spirit of conciliation went far to tide the Union over the danger points in its career . Three great compromise measures were engineered by him - the Missouri Compro- mise of 1820 , the Tariff Compromise of 1833 ...
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... Congress , assailed New England , and made caustic remarks about Mr. Webster himself . From this speech we have quoted . Webster's reply was unanswerable . In it he drew the charge from Mr. Hayne's guns by praising South Carolina while ...
... Congress , assailed New England , and made caustic remarks about Mr. Webster himself . From this speech we have quoted . Webster's reply was unanswerable . In it he drew the charge from Mr. Hayne's guns by praising South Carolina while ...
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