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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... American Oratory . " It gave rise to such giants in debate as Clay , Webster , Calhoun , and added to the literature of oratory many brilliant examples of the speaker's art . HENRY CLAY ( 1777-1852 ) THE PEOPLE'S FAVORITE I N 61.
... American Oratory . " It gave rise to such giants in debate as Clay , Webster , Calhoun , and added to the literature of oratory many brilliant examples of the speaker's art . HENRY CLAY ( 1777-1852 ) THE PEOPLE'S FAVORITE I N 61.
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... gave to second - rate composition first - rate effect . " While excelled as a reasoner by Webster , and surpassed in fiery earn- estness by Calhoun , none were his equals in grace of oratory and charm of manner . His speeches do not all ...
... gave to second - rate composition first - rate effect . " While excelled as a reasoner by Webster , and surpassed in fiery earn- estness by Calhoun , none were his equals in grace of oratory and charm of manner . His speeches do not all ...
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... gave their lives that that nation might live . It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this . But in a large sense we cannot dedicate , we cannot consecrate , we cannot hallow this ground . The brave men , living and dead ...
... gave their lives that that nation might live . It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this . But in a large sense we cannot dedicate , we cannot consecrate , we cannot hallow this ground . The brave men , living and dead ...
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... gave rise , was slight compared with that in which the dissolution of the Union was involved . There have been no lack of orators in the recent period , many of them eloquent , some of them full of force and fervor . But it is not easy ...
... gave rise , was slight compared with that in which the dissolution of the Union was involved . There have been no lack of orators in the recent period , many of them eloquent , some of them full of force and fervor . But it is not easy ...
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... gave the cue to its character , which is that of an ardent eulogy of the Republican party , of whose principles Mr. Beveridge is an earnest advocate . ] Young blood is Republican blood . It is the blood that believes and builds ; the ...
... gave the cue to its character , which is that of an ardent eulogy of the Republican party , of whose principles Mr. Beveridge is an earnest advocate . ] Young blood is Republican blood . It is the blood that believes and builds ; the ...
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