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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... opinion differed ; but none of these have a threat of war or revolution behind them , and the stir of thought or vigor of expression to which they gave rise , was slight compared with that in which the dissolution of the Union was ...
... opinion differed ; but none of these have a threat of war or revolution behind them , and the stir of thought or vigor of expression to which they gave rise , was slight compared with that in which the dissolution of the Union was ...
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... opinion of a free country , and he possessed almost to the degree of an instinct the supreme quality in a statesman of taking the right deci- sion , taking it at the right moment , and expressing it in language of incom- parable ...
... opinion of a free country , and he possessed almost to the degree of an instinct the supreme quality in a statesman of taking the right deci- sion , taking it at the right moment , and expressing it in language of incom- parable ...
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... opinions . THE GREATNESS AND THE WEAKNESS OF DANIEL WEBSTER [ The public life and private character of Webster has never been so set forth , alike in its greatness and its weakness , as in the memorable attack made by Parker on the ...
... opinions . THE GREATNESS AND THE WEAKNESS OF DANIEL WEBSTER [ The public life and private character of Webster has never been so set forth , alike in its greatness and its weakness , as in the memorable attack made by Parker on the ...
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... opinion between its citizens , the oration will become more and more of the lecture character , its purpose being to instruct , interest or amuse , rather than to cure the political or social evils of the age . In the past many ...
... opinion between its citizens , the oration will become more and more of the lecture character , its purpose being to instruct , interest or amuse , rather than to cure the political or social evils of the age . In the past many ...
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... opinions . They demand a statesman ; they demand a reformer after , as well as before , the election . They demand a politician in the highest , broadest , and best sense - a man of superb moral courage . They demand a man acquainted ...
... opinions . They demand a statesman ; they demand a reformer after , as well as before , the election . They demand a politician in the highest , broadest , and best sense - a man of superb moral courage . They demand a man acquainted ...
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