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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... confined ; Here , among the ruins of an old castle , we will show you where such a one had his ears cut off , and where another was murdered . " Then they will show me monuments towering up to the heavens . " There is a monument to such ...
... confined ; Here , among the ruins of an old castle , we will show you where such a one had his ears cut off , and where another was murdered . " Then they will show me monuments towering up to the heavens . " There is a monument to such ...
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... confined as closely as possible to domestic duties and social interests , it is not surprising that the appearance of woman upon the rostrum in the past was almost a thing unknown . The greater freedom and broader education which came ...
... confined as closely as possible to domestic duties and social interests , it is not surprising that the appearance of woman upon the rostrum in the past was almost a thing unknown . The greater freedom and broader education which came ...
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... confined to a particular family , but is attainable only by merit . Poverty is not a hindrance , since whoever is able to serve his country meets with no obstacle to preferment from his first obscurity . DEMOSTHENES ( 382-322 B. C. ) ...
... confined to a particular family , but is attainable only by merit . Poverty is not a hindrance , since whoever is able to serve his country meets with no obstacle to preferment from his first obscurity . DEMOSTHENES ( 382-322 B. C. ) ...
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... confined in a dark and cheerless apartment which ruined his health . As an orator Eliot had remarkable powers . " He had , " says Forster , " some of the highest qualities as an orator - singular power of statement , clearness and ...
... confined in a dark and cheerless apartment which ruined his health . As an orator Eliot had remarkable powers . " He had , " says Forster , " some of the highest qualities as an orator - singular power of statement , clearness and ...
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... confine , and execute their fellow subjects by virtue of the Mutiny Act , an Act of the British Parliament ; and I appeal to this House whether a country so circumstanced is free . Where is the freedom of trade ? Where is the security ...
... confine , and execute their fellow subjects by virtue of the Mutiny Act , an Act of the British Parliament ; and I appeal to this House whether a country so circumstanced is free . Where is the freedom of trade ? Where is the security ...
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