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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... honor of the important 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 ...
... honor of the important 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 ...
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... honor of member- ship in the United States Senate may be named Albert Jeremiah Beveridge , whose elevation to a seat in that distinguished body was a suitable reward for his brilliant oratorical powers and statesman- like abilities ...
... honor of member- ship in the United States Senate may be named Albert Jeremiah Beveridge , whose elevation to a seat in that distinguished body was a suitable reward for his brilliant oratorical powers and statesman- like abilities ...
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... honor of that event , and delivered there an eloquent address , suited to the occasion . A selection follows . ] This is a magnificent festival ; but , contrary to the rule , it is greater relatively than absolutely . Grand as it is ...
... honor of that event , and delivered there an eloquent address , suited to the occasion . A selection follows . ] This is a magnificent festival ; but , contrary to the rule , it is greater relatively than absolutely . Grand as it is ...
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... honor of knighthood in the following year . For many years the Conservative party had been predominant in Canada . With Laurier the Liberals came into power , after a long interregnum . They could not have done so under an abler leader ...
... honor of knighthood in the following year . For many years the Conservative party had been predominant in Canada . With Laurier the Liberals came into power , after a long interregnum . They could not have done so under an abler leader ...
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... honor of delivering the two most effective nominating speeches on record . ] Massachusetts may be satisfied with the loyalty of Benjamin H. Bris- tow ; so am I ; but if any man nominated by this convention cannot carry the State of ...
... honor of delivering the two most effective nominating speeches on record . ] Massachusetts may be satisfied with the loyalty of Benjamin H. Bris- tow ; so am I ; but if any man nominated by this convention cannot carry the State of ...
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