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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... IRELAND [ Of Grattan's speech in 1780 , on " Liberty as an Inalienable Right , " it has been said : " Nothing equal to it had ever been heard in Ireland , nor probably was its superior ever delivered in the British House of Commons ...
... IRELAND [ Of Grattan's speech in 1780 , on " Liberty as an Inalienable Right , " it has been said : " Nothing equal to it had ever been heard in Ireland , nor probably was its superior ever delivered in the British House of Commons ...
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... Ireland so pos- sessed of the confidence of the people ; you are the greatest political assem- bly now sitting in the world ; you are at the head of an immense army- nor do we only possess an unconquerable force , but a certain unquench ...
... Ireland so pos- sessed of the confidence of the people ; you are the greatest political assem- bly now sitting in the world ; you are at the head of an immense army- nor do we only possess an unconquerable force , but a certain unquench ...
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... Ireland with Great Britain , and for ten years and more stirred up the members by his wit , irony , vehe- mence and invective . Yet he kept the Irish from violent outbreaks until 1843 , when the Young Ireland party threatened to break ...
... Ireland with Great Britain , and for ten years and more stirred up the members by his wit , irony , vehe- mence and invective . Yet he kept the Irish from violent outbreaks until 1843 , when the Young Ireland party threatened to break ...
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... Ireland , he was one of the most effective popular leaders of modern times . As examples of his bitterness in epithet may be given his comparison of the smile of Sir Robert Peel to the shine of a silver plate on a coffin , and his ...
... Ireland , he was one of the most effective popular leaders of modern times . As examples of his bitterness in epithet may be given his comparison of the smile of Sir Robert Peel to the shine of a silver plate on a coffin , and his ...
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... Ireland hailed him as her champion in the long - sought - for cause of Home Rule . Gladstone was a man of immense mental activity . The intervals between his rarely ending parliamentary labors were filled with busy authorship . But his ...
... Ireland hailed him as her champion in the long - sought - for cause of Home Rule . Gladstone was a man of immense mental activity . The intervals between his rarely ending parliamentary labors were filled with busy authorship . But his ...
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