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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... death removed him from the scene . His own words form the true motto of his character : " I would rather be right than be President . " THE AMERICAN SYSTEM [ Clay , who had argued strongly in favor of a protective tariff during the ...
... death removed him from the scene . His own words form the true motto of his character : " I would rather be right than be President . " THE AMERICAN SYSTEM [ Clay , who had argued strongly in favor of a protective tariff during the ...
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... death . For no cause , in the very frenzy of wantonness and wickedness , by the red hand of mur- der , he was thrust from the full tide of this world's interest , from its WIT BOOK IV . Recent Political Orators WITH the passing James A ...
... death . For no cause , in the very frenzy of wantonness and wickedness , by the red hand of mur- der , he was thrust from the full tide of this world's interest , from its WIT BOOK IV . Recent Political Orators WITH the passing James A ...
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... death coming to him on September 14 , 1901 , a week after the anarchist's deadly act . THE AGENCIES OF MODERN PROSPERITY [ On September 5 , 1901 , the day before his fatal wound was received , Presi- dent McKinley delivered before an ...
... death coming to him on September 14 , 1901 , a week after the anarchist's deadly act . THE AGENCIES OF MODERN PROSPERITY [ On September 5 , 1901 , the day before his fatal wound was received , Presi- dent McKinley delivered before an ...
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... death 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 ...
... death 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 ...
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... death , he was made Lieutenant - Governor of Nova Scotia . CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES [ As a favorable example of Howe's oratorical powers - not of the sarcasm and invective in which he excelled - we append the following eloquent ...
... death , he was made Lieutenant - Governor of Nova Scotia . CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES [ As a favorable example of Howe's oratorical powers - not of the sarcasm and invective in which he excelled - we append the following eloquent ...
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