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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... event of the greatest importance . The Assembly included James G. Blaine , James A. Garfield and other distinguished American Orators , many of whose well - known faces are recognizable in this picture . Mr. Evarts was one of the most ...
... event of the greatest importance . The Assembly included James G. Blaine , James A. Garfield and other distinguished American Orators , many of whose well - known faces are recognizable in this picture . Mr. Evarts was one of the most ...
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... event which formed the legitimate climax of the long and virulent slavery contest in the Congress of the United States . On that day Preston S. Brooks , a South Carolina Representative , attacked Charles Sumner , a Massachu- setts ...
... event which formed the legitimate climax of the long and virulent slavery contest in the Congress of the United States . On that day Preston S. Brooks , a South Carolina Representative , attacked Charles Sumner , a Massachu- setts ...
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... event , of the question whether the co - ordination of the Constitu- tion can be preserved . Attend to these special circumstances , und deter- mine for yourselves whether under these influences it is best to urge a contest which must ...
... event , of the question whether the co - ordination of the Constitu- tion can be preserved . Attend to these special circumstances , und deter- mine for yourselves whether under these influences it is best to urge a contest which must ...
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... events . calling for argument and breeding controversy , but these have been of minor importance as compared with the all - controlling excitement of the slavery conflict and the reconstruction debate . There have been active party ...
... events . calling for argument and breeding controversy , but these have been of minor importance as compared with the all - controlling excitement of the slavery conflict and the reconstruction debate . There have been active party ...
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... event , his glowing panegyric of Washington's work and character . ] No sum could now be made of Washington's character that did not exhaust language of its tributes and repeat virtue by all her names . No sum could be made of his ...
... event , his glowing panegyric of Washington's work and character . ] No sum could now be made of Washington's character that did not exhaust language of its tributes and repeat virtue by all her names . No sum could be made of his ...
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