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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... became an advocate in many important cases in the courts of Indiana . While still a boy , he had shown himself a ready and eloquent speaker in col- lege contests , and he now employed his skill in oratory in the field of Republican ...
... became an advocate in many important cases in the courts of Indiana . While still a boy , he had shown himself a ready and eloquent speaker in col- lege contests , and he now employed his skill in oratory in the field of Republican ...
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... became editor of the Atlanta Constitution , in whose management he soon gained the reputation of being one of the ablest of American editors . Though he died nine years afterward , he lived long enough to win a fame that extended ...
... became editor of the Atlanta Constitution , in whose management he soon gained the reputation of being one of the ablest of American editors . Though he died nine years afterward , he lived long enough to win a fame that extended ...
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... became more intimately affiliated with the Government than ever before , when Wilfrid Laurier , a statesman of their race , was appointed to the high dignity of Premier of the Dominion , the first of his people to hold that position ...
... became more intimately affiliated with the Government than ever before , when Wilfrid Laurier , a statesman of their race , was appointed to the high dignity of Premier of the Dominion , the first of his people to hold that position ...
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... became active in church work , writing many hymns and organizing a flourishing tem- perance society of boys and girls . During the Civil War she was a valuable worker in the Sanitary Commission service , and after the war became an ...
... became active in church work , writing many hymns and organizing a flourishing tem- perance society of boys and girls . During the Civil War she was a valuable worker in the Sanitary Commission service , and after the war became an ...
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... became one of the literary phenomena of its day . NEW ENGLAND CULTURE [ Mr. Hale may be held to possess excellent standing before the American people as an orator as well as a writer ; as a lecturer as well as a pulpit speaker ...
... became one of the literary phenomena of its day . NEW ENGLAND CULTURE [ Mr. Hale may be held to possess excellent standing before the American people as an orator as well as a writer ; as a lecturer as well as a pulpit speaker ...
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