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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... effect of emancipation and the reunion of the country . ] I knew Mr. Lincoln well . We met in the House in December , 1847 . We were together during the Thirtieth Congress . I was as intimate with him as with any other man of that ...
... effect of emancipation and the reunion of the country . ] I knew Mr. Lincoln well . We met in the House in December , 1847 . We were together during the Thirtieth Congress . I was as intimate with him as with any other man of that ...
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... effect . Sumner's career in the Senate began in 1850 , when he was elected to succeed Daniel Webster , then made Secretary of State . He continued there during the remainder of his life , taking an active part in the debates during the ...
... effect . Sumner's career in the Senate began in 1850 , when he was elected to succeed Daniel Webster , then made Secretary of State . He continued there during the remainder of his life , taking an active part in the debates during the ...
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... effect in the North as those delivered by Henry W. Grady , Georgia's young orator , at New York , on " The New South , " and at Boston , on " The Future of the Negro . " Here was a voice from the South which the North was glad to hear ...
... effect in the North as those delivered by Henry W. Grady , Georgia's young orator , at New York , on " The New South , " and at Boston , on " The Future of the Negro . " Here was a voice from the South which the North was glad to hear ...
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... effect , pictured a traveler from New Zealand sitting on a broken arch of St. Paul's ; and the great Daniel Web- ster in one of his addresses reflected that if England should pass into decay , the great Republic which was her child ...
... effect , pictured a traveler from New Zealand sitting on a broken arch of St. Paul's ; and the great Daniel Web- ster in one of his addresses reflected that if England should pass into decay , the great Republic which was her child ...
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... effect on the public , yet he was one of the most admired pulpit orators of the coun- try during the greater part of his career . He was more polished in style than Beecher , his language of striking simplicity yet always artistic in ...
... effect on the public , yet he was one of the most admired pulpit orators of the coun- try during the greater part of his career . He was more polished in style than Beecher , his language of striking simplicity yet always artistic in ...
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