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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... carried off this able orator before his powers had reached their prime . Born at Athens , Georgia , in 1851 , Grady , on reaching manhood , made journalism his profession , and in 1880 became editor of the Atlanta Constitution , in ...
... carried off this able orator before his powers had reached their prime . Born at Athens , Georgia , in 1851 , Grady , on reaching manhood , made journalism his profession , and in 1880 became editor of the Atlanta Constitution , in ...
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... carried with it his nomination for the Presi- dency . ] And now , my friends , let me come to the paramount issue . If they ask us why it is that we say more on the money question than we say upon the tariff question , I reply that , if ...
... carried with it his nomination for the Presi- dency . ] And now , my friends , let me come to the paramount issue . If they ask us why it is that we say more on the money question than we say upon the tariff question , I reply that , if ...
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... carried into the Union by a trick and had been given no opportunity to vote on the act of Union . A compromise , by which Nova Scotia benefited , settled the difficulty , and Howe afterward sat in the Dominion Parliament . In 1873 , the ...
... carried into the Union by a trick and had been given no opportunity to vote on the act of Union . A compromise , by which Nova Scotia benefited , settled the difficulty , and Howe afterward sat in the Dominion Parliament . In 1873 , the ...
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... carried British commerce and arms — and where have they not ? —everywhere in the civilized world the same feast is held ; in city and jungle ; on mountain and plain ; in lonely remote deserts , or in far - off isles and seas . There is ...
... carried British commerce and arms — and where have they not ? —everywhere in the civilized world the same feast is held ; in city and jungle ; on mountain and plain ; in lonely remote deserts , or in far - off isles and seas . There is ...
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... 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 . As an orator Mr. Moody depended largely on his power of working on the emotions of an audience ...
... 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 . As an orator Mr. Moody depended largely on his power of working on the emotions of an audience ...
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