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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... liberty and the country ; or , if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven , if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the South , and if , moved by local prejudice , or gangrened by State jealousy , I get up here to abate a ...
... liberty and the country ; or , if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven , if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the South , and if , moved by local prejudice , or gangrened by State jealousy , I get up here to abate a ...
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... Liberty first and Union afterwards , -but everywhere , spread all over in characters of living light , blazing on all its ample folds , as they float over the sea and over the land , and in every wind under the whole heavens , that ...
... Liberty first and Union afterwards , -but everywhere , spread all over in characters of living light , blazing on all its ample folds , as they float over the sea and over the land , and in every wind under the whole heavens , that ...
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... liberty , and dedicated to the proposi- tion that all men are created equal . Now we are engaged in a great civil war , testing whether that nation , or any nation so conceived and so dedi- cated , can long endure . We are met on a ...
... liberty , and dedicated to the proposi- tion that all men are created equal . Now we are engaged in a great civil war , testing whether that nation , or any nation so conceived and so dedi- cated , can long endure . We are met on a ...
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... Liberty . " ] We are not here to celebrate an accident . What occurred here was premeditated , designed , foreseen . If there be in the universe a Power which ordains the course of history , we cannot fail to see in the settlement CARL ...
... Liberty . " ] We are not here to celebrate an accident . What occurred here was premeditated , designed , foreseen . If there be in the universe a Power which ordains the course of history , we cannot fail to see in the settlement CARL ...
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... liberty beyond the seas was Carl Schurz , who came to the United States in 1852 , finding a new home in Wisconsin . In this country he has been free to express his progressive sentiments , and has been very active in political labors ...
... liberty beyond the seas was Carl Schurz , who came to the United States in 1852 , finding a new home in Wisconsin . In this country he has been free to express his progressive sentiments , and has been very active in political labors ...
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