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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... given to one the firm possession - by a three - fourths vote , I think , in both Houses of the control of the action of each body of the Legislature ? Reflect upon this . I do not touch upon the particular circumstance that the non ...
... given to one the firm possession - by a three - fourths vote , I think , in both Houses of the control of the action of each body of the Legislature ? Reflect upon this . I do not touch upon the particular circumstance that the non ...
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... given to ornamental language , yet strong and effective . He is an able writer , his " Life of Henry Clay " in especial being regarded as a classic of its kind . He has also written a " Life of Abraham Lincoln . " AMNESTY FOR THE ...
... given to ornamental language , yet strong and effective . He is an able writer , his " Life of Henry Clay " in especial being regarded as a classic of its kind . He has also written a " Life of Abraham Lincoln . " AMNESTY FOR THE ...
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... given no opportunity to vote on the act of Union . A compromise , by which Nova Scotia benefited , settled the difficulty , and Howe afterward sat in the Dominion Parliament . In 1873 , the year of his death , he was made Lieutenant ...
... given no opportunity to vote on the act of Union . A compromise , by which Nova Scotia benefited , settled the difficulty , and Howe afterward sat in the Dominion Parliament . In 1873 , the year of his death , he was made Lieutenant ...
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... given from Parker's address . ] Do men mourn for him , the great man eloquent ? I put on sack- cloth long ago . I mourned for him when he wrote the Creole letter which surprised Ashburton , Briton that he was . I mourned when he spoke ...
... given from Parker's address . ] Do men mourn for him , the great man eloquent ? I put on sack- cloth long ago . I mourned for him when he wrote the Creole letter which surprised Ashburton , Briton that he was . I mourned when he spoke ...
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... given , their subject is usually one of local and passing interest , which fact renders them unsuitable for popular reading . In the latter , while the topic is usually of an educational character , this is by no means always the case ...
... given , their subject is usually one of local and passing interest , which fact renders them unsuitable for popular reading . In the latter , while the topic is usually of an educational character , this is by no means always the case ...
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