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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... oratory on record , it is to find the pure gold of eloquence often sadly alloyed . The orations of supreme merit , those which have won a position in the world's best literature , are few in number , and the list of world - famed orators ...
... oratory on record , it is to find the pure gold of eloquence often sadly alloyed . The orations of supreme merit , those which have won a position in the world's best literature , are few in number , and the list of world - famed orators ...
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... oration is left - its logic , its truth , its quality as a product of the intellect . When thus read , apart from the per- sonal influence of the orator and with cool and judicial mind , the sophistry , the emptiness , of many showy ...
... oration is left - its logic , its truth , its quality as a product of the intellect . When thus read , apart from the per- sonal influence of the orator and with cool and judicial mind , the sophistry , the emptiness , of many showy ...
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... Oration and Explanatory Notes on Obscure Passages : Arranged in Eighteen Great Epochs Or Books Charles Morris. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ORATORY should be judged from such a point of view . An orator is essentially a partisan . He takes ...
... Oration and Explanatory Notes on Obscure Passages : Arranged in Eighteen Great Epochs Or Books Charles Morris. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ORATORY should be judged from such a point of view . An orator is essentially a partisan . He takes ...
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... orators has been presented to the reader , that he may see them " in their habit as they lived " ; the special occasion which gave rise to each oration is cited ; and a sketch is given in the instance of each orator of the qualities and ...
... orators has been presented to the reader , that he may see them " in their habit as they lived " ; the special occasion which gave rise to each oration is cited ; and a sketch is given in the instance of each orator of the qualities and ...
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... orator to the utmost exercise of his faculties . In our selections we have been guided in a measure by this fact , choosing from the more famous examples of oratory , for the double reason that these present the orator at his best , and ...
... orator to the utmost exercise of his faculties . In our selections we have been guided in a measure by this fact , choosing from the more famous examples of oratory , for the double reason that these present the orator at his best , and ...
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