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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... APPEAL TO ARMS . [ As Patrick Henry had hurled the first defiance against Great Britain in 1765 , he was the first to make an open appeal to arms in 1775. This was on March 23d , three weeks before the fight at Lexington precipitated ...
... APPEAL TO ARMS . [ As Patrick Henry had hurled the first defiance against Great Britain in 1765 , he was the first to make an open appeal to arms in 1775. This was on March 23d , three weeks before the fight at Lexington precipitated ...
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... appeal to arms . With the first of these periods we have already dealt . The second was dominated by two exciting political problems , the tariff question and the slavery contro- versy . The first of these led to the attempted seces ...
... appeal to arms . With the first of these periods we have already dealt . The second was dominated by two exciting political problems , the tariff question and the slavery contro- versy . The first of these led to the attempted seces ...
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... appeal to violence ; the first blow in the Civil War . It indicated that the conflict was passing the limits of debate and argument , and entering the arena of physical force . Injured as he was , Sumner was not disarmed . On his return ...
... appeal to violence ; the first blow in the Civil War . It indicated that the conflict was passing the limits of debate and argument , and entering the arena of physical force . Injured as he was , Sumner was not disarmed . On his return ...
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... appeals to every one who has reached adult life ; aye , and to a great multitude who are only a little way across the threshold . As our experience deep- ens we realize that the whole world is one vast encampment , and that every man ...
... appeals to every one who has reached adult life ; aye , and to a great multitude who are only a little way across the threshold . As our experience deep- ens we realize that the whole world is one vast encampment , and that every man ...
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... appeals for the cause she had most at heart , and for its sister cause , woman suffrage , since she looked to the pos- session of the ballot by women as an efficient aid in promoting the cause of temper- ance . From an address delivered ...
... appeals for the cause she had most at heart , and for its sister cause , woman suffrage , since she looked to the pos- session of the ballot by women as an efficient aid in promoting the cause of temper- ance . From an address delivered ...
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