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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... hindrance , since whoever is able to serve his country meets with no obstacle to preferment from his first obscurity . DEMOSTHENES ( 382-322 B. C. ) THE PARAGON OF ORATORS 395 Pericles 395 The Dead who Fell for Athens 396.
... hindrance , since whoever is able to serve his country meets with no obstacle to preferment from his first obscurity . DEMOSTHENES ( 382-322 B. C. ) THE PARAGON OF ORATORS 395 Pericles 395 The Dead who Fell for Athens 396.
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... meet their new foeman as they had met the Persians of old . Several other orators of Athens were bribed by Philip's gold , but the patriotism of Demosthenes was proof against venality . With watchful sagacity he penetrated the designs ...
... meet their new foeman as they had met the Persians of old . Several other orators of Athens were bribed by Philip's gold , but the patriotism of Demosthenes was proof against venality . With watchful sagacity he penetrated the designs ...
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... meet the fate that awaits me without a murmur . But the sentence of the law which delivers my body to the executioner will , through the ministry of that law , labor , in its own vin- dication , to consign my character to obloquy : for ...
... meet the fate that awaits me without a murmur . But the sentence of the law which delivers my body to the executioner will , through the ministry of that law , labor , in its own vin- dication , to consign my character to obloquy : for ...
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... meet with Wesley , the founder of Methodism , whose principles he eloquently disseminated for many years , speaking in the open air to audiences of vast propor- tions and intent interest ; and Whitefield , the origi- nator of ...
... meet with Wesley , the founder of Methodism , whose principles he eloquently disseminated for many years , speaking in the open air to audiences of vast propor- tions and intent interest ; and Whitefield , the origi- nator of ...
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