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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... fields . " Very well , " he replied , ' you attend to the planting of liberty and I will grub up the taxes . we shall have pleasant places . " ( 6 ( 6 Thus He was the leading spirit in the celebrated " Boston Tea Party . " On December ...
... fields . " Very well , " he replied , ' you attend to the planting of liberty and I will grub up the taxes . we shall have pleasant places . " ( 6 ( 6 Thus He was the leading spirit in the celebrated " Boston Tea Party . " On December ...
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... field . In all this was plentiful food for oratory . In the few years preceding the war , when the coming conflict impended over the land like a dark thunder cloud whose lightnings were for a while withheld , the voice of the orator was ...
... field . In all this was plentiful food for oratory . In the few years preceding the war , when the coming conflict impended over the land like a dark thunder cloud whose lightnings were for a while withheld , the voice of the orator was ...
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... fields of battle ; not in Golgothas , though covered by monuments that kiss the clouds : for all these are the creatures and representatives of those qualities of our nature which are unlike any- thing in God's nature . Nor is the ...
... fields of battle ; not in Golgothas , though covered by monuments that kiss the clouds : for all these are the creatures and representatives of those qualities of our nature which are unlike any- thing in God's nature . Nor is the ...
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... field of forensic eloquence . We need scarcely repeat the well - known fact that the President was acquitted , and that his advocate aided in the result through his legal acumen and deep knowledge of Constitutional law . The services of ...
... field of forensic eloquence . We need scarcely repeat the well - known fact that the President was acquitted , and that his advocate aided in the result through his legal acumen and deep knowledge of Constitutional law . The services of ...
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... fields and their homes devas- tated , their fortunes destroyed ; and , more than that , the whole social system in which they had their being , with their hopes and pride , utterly wiped out ; slavery forever abolished , and the slaves ...
... fields and their homes devas- tated , their fortunes destroyed ; and , more than that , the whole social system in which they had their being , with their hopes and pride , utterly wiped out ; slavery forever abolished , and the slaves ...
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