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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... argument as was yesterday urged by the gentleman from Massachusetts ( Mr. Webster ) . Sir , I questioned no man's ... arguments been met ? The honorable gentleman from Massachusetts , after deliberating a whole night upon his course ...
... argument as was yesterday urged by the gentleman from Massachusetts ( Mr. Webster ) . Sir , I questioned no man's ... arguments been met ? The honorable gentleman from Massachusetts , after deliberating a whole night upon his course ...
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... argument in the trial for murder of John K. Knapp . In the passage given he soars far above the dry level of legal oratory , and depicts the effect of conscience on the mind of the murderer in sentences of thrilling intensity . ] He has ...
... argument in the trial for murder of John K. Knapp . In the passage given he soars far above the dry level of legal oratory , and depicts the effect of conscience on the mind of the murderer in sentences of thrilling intensity . ] He has ...
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... argument , and entering the arena of physical force . Injured as he was , Sumner was not disarmed . On his return to the Senate in 1859 , his unrelenting hostility to the " peculiar institution " was again manifested in a speech on ...
... argument , and entering the arena of physical force . Injured as he was , Sumner was not disarmed . On his return to the Senate in 1859 , his unrelenting hostility to the " peculiar institution " was again manifested in a speech on ...
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... argument for the defendant in the great impeach- ment trial . As evidence , we give an extract from this very fine forensic effort . ] There are in the Constitution but three barriers against the will of a majority of Congress within ...
... argument for the defendant in the great impeach- ment trial . As evidence , we give an extract from this very fine forensic effort . ] There are in the Constitution but three barriers against the will of a majority of Congress within ...
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... argument and breeding controversy , but these have been of minor importance as compared with the all - controlling excitement of the slavery conflict and the reconstruction debate . There have been active party controversies , on such ...
... argument and breeding controversy , but these have been of minor importance as compared with the all - controlling excitement of the slavery conflict and the reconstruction debate . There have been active party controversies , on such ...
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