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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... forces of disunion ; not towering , like Webster , in heroic defiance of the foes of the Union , but healing its wounds , allaying the violence of the combat , and winning by mild measures what could not be attained by violence . Where ...
... forces of disunion ; not towering , like Webster , in heroic defiance of the foes of the Union , but healing its wounds , allaying the violence of the combat , and winning by mild measures what could not be attained by violence . Where ...
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... force . Injured as he was , Sumner was not disarmed . On his return to the Senate in 1859 , his unrelenting hostility to the " peculiar institution " was again manifested in a speech on " The Barbarism of Slavery , " which produced an ...
... force . Injured as he was , Sumner was not disarmed . On his return to the Senate in 1859 , his unrelenting hostility to the " peculiar institution " was again manifested in a speech on " The Barbarism of Slavery , " which produced an ...
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... force , who renounces the great law of Christian brotherhood ; whose vocation is blood ; who triumphs in battle over his fellow - men . Well may old Sir Thomas Browne exclaim : " The world does not know its greatest men ; " for thus far ...
... force , who renounces the great law of Christian brotherhood ; whose vocation is blood ; who triumphs in battle over his fellow - men . Well may old Sir Thomas Browne exclaim : " The world does not know its greatest men ; " for thus far ...
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... force , where is the glory ? Suppose it to be decided by chance , where is the glory ? No ; true greatness consists in imitating , as near as possible for finite man , the perfections of an Infinite Creator ; above all , in cultivating ...
... force , where is the glory ? Suppose it to be decided by chance , where is the glory ? No ; true greatness consists in imitating , as near as possible for finite man , the perfections of an Infinite Creator ; above all , in cultivating ...
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... force and fervor . But it is not easy to make a hot fire without coals , and a vehement burst of oratory on an inconsequential subject is apt to yield more smoke than flame . The speeches upon which we shall draw , therefore , in the ...
... force and fervor . But it is not easy to make a hot fire without coals , and a vehement burst of oratory on an inconsequential subject is apt to yield more smoke than flame . The speeches upon which we shall draw , therefore , in the ...
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