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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... England . In oratory he was a notable repre- sentative of the academic method . Eloquence with him was not native , but acquired ; the result of special study and mental cultiva- tion . Superior to Webster in scholarship , he was not ...
... England . In oratory he was a notable repre- sentative of the academic method . Eloquence with him was not native , but acquired ; the result of special study and mental cultiva- tion . Superior to Webster in scholarship , he was not ...
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... England Club in New York . The banquets of this club have often been made the occasion for speeches upon topics of national importance , but none of these have attracted more attention than Grady's eloquent presentation of the new ...
... England Club in New York . The banquets of this club have often been made the occasion for speeches upon topics of national importance , but none of these have attracted more attention than Grady's eloquent presentation of the new ...
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... England , which , during the following period of nearly seven centuries , has been the richest nation on the face of the globe , began to establish the two universities which , from the banks of the Cam and the Isis , have sent forth ...
... England , which , during the following period of nearly seven centuries , has been the richest nation on the face of the globe , began to establish the two universities which , from the banks of the Cam and the Isis , have sent forth ...
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... England should pass into decay , the great Republic which was her child , born in storm and bitter- ness and fated to greatness , would preserve her memory , her arts , her language , her love of freedom . England's time cannot come ...
... England should pass into decay , the great Republic which was her child , born in storm and bitter- ness and fated to greatness , would preserve her memory , her arts , her language , her love of freedom . England's time cannot come ...
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... England , in the days of the Second Empire , he used to write to the press of Paris , and in one of his letters to Le Temps he stated that Mr. Gladstone would undoubtedly have been the foremost ora- tor of England if it were not for the ...
... England , in the days of the Second Empire , he used to write to the press of Paris , and in one of his letters to Le Temps he stated that Mr. Gladstone would undoubtedly have been the foremost ora- tor of England if it were not for the ...
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