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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... born in storm and bitter- ness and fated to greatness , would preserve her memory , her arts , her language , her love of freedom . England's time cannot come unless her Empire's time should come . Where is the nation , or combination ...
... born in storm and bitter- ness and fated to greatness , would preserve her memory , her arts , her language , her love of freedom . England's time cannot come unless her Empire's time should come . Where is the nation , or combination ...
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... born were gone . Men were bereaved and walked for days as if a corpse lay unburied in their dwellings . There was nothing else to think of . They could speak of nothing but that ; and yet of that they could speak only falteringly . All ...
... born were gone . Men were bereaved and walked for days as if a corpse lay unburied in their dwellings . There was nothing else to think of . They could speak of nothing but that ; and yet of that they could speak only falteringly . All ...
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... born in Massachusetts , but went to Chicago in 1856 , where , while engaged in business , he carried on an active mis- sionary work . He was joined by Mr. Sankey in 1870 , and for years afterward he was engaged in evangelical labors ...
... born in Massachusetts , but went to Chicago in 1856 , where , while engaged in business , he carried on an active mis- sionary work . He was joined by Mr. Sankey in 1870 , and for years afterward he was engaged in evangelical labors ...
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... Born at Portland , Maine , an opportunity for , a lucrative tutor- ship took him from college to Natchez , Mississippi , and it was in this city and in New Orleans that he afterward resided , obtaining in each a very large legal ...
... Born at Portland , Maine , an opportunity for , a lucrative tutor- ship took him from college to Natchez , Mississippi , and it was in this city and in New Orleans that he afterward resided , obtaining in each a very large legal ...
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... Born , the daughter of Timothy Rice , at Boston , Massachusetts , she spent three years of her early woman- hood on a Southern plantation , where there were some five hundred slaves . The scenes she beheld there made her one of the most ...
... Born , the daughter of Timothy Rice , at Boston , Massachusetts , she spent three years of her early woman- hood on a Southern plantation , where there were some five hundred slaves . The scenes she beheld there made her one of the most ...
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