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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... republic were breaking up ; the leaders of the army were becoming the autocrats of the State ; the freedom of the people was near its end and the Empire was at hand . There were two events of the time which especially aroused the ...
... republic were breaking up ; the leaders of the army were becoming the autocrats of the State ; the freedom of the people was near its end and the Empire was at hand . There were two events of the time which especially aroused the ...
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... republic following the monarchy in three of these cases , while a change of dynasty took place in the second . Here was abundant political change , uprooting of old institu- tions , exposure of administrative abuses , radical vari ...
... republic following the monarchy in three of these cases , while a change of dynasty took place in the second . Here was abundant political change , uprooting of old institu- tions , exposure of administrative abuses , radical vari ...
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... Republic was organized , in 1871 , he was elected its President , but resigned in 1873 , after having done much to overcome the evil effects of the war . As a historical author he is known for his " History of the Revolution " and " His ...
... Republic was organized , in 1871 , he was elected its President , but resigned in 1873 , after having done much to overcome the evil effects of the war . As a historical author he is known for his " History of the Revolution " and " His ...
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