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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... reputation as an orator . He was rewarded by being appointed Min- ister to Spain , and in 1862 he entered the army as brigadier - general , and fought through two years of the war . Removing to St. Louis in 1868 , Missouri sent him to ...
... reputation as an orator . He was rewarded by being appointed Min- ister to Spain , and in 1862 he entered the army as brigadier - general , and fought through two years of the war . Removing to St. Louis in 1868 , Missouri sent him to ...
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... reputation of being one of the ablest of American editors . Though he died nine years afterward , he lived long enough to win a fame that extended through all sections of the land , and his speeches did much to allay prejudice and draw ...
... reputation of being one of the ablest of American editors . Though he died nine years afterward , he lived long enough to win a fame that extended through all sections of the land , and his speeches did much to allay prejudice and draw ...
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... reputation in this art . Though many of them may have breathed " words that burn , ' their thoughts have not flamed high enough to be visible afar . In our selections , therefore , we are confined to the two commonwealths , the United ...
... reputation in this art . Though many of them may have breathed " words that burn , ' their thoughts have not flamed high enough to be visible afar . In our selections , therefore , we are confined to the two commonwealths , the United ...
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... reputation of being one of the greatest , if not distinctively the greatest , orators of the Civil War period . Certainly , no more splendid bursts of oratory than those of Beecher were called forth by the events of this dread conflict ...
... reputation of being one of the greatest , if not distinctively the greatest , orators of the Civil War period . Certainly , no more splendid bursts of oratory than those of Beecher were called forth by the events of this dread conflict ...
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... reputation as an orator had preceded him , and the House was crowded with those who desired to test the quality of his eloquence . Rarely has Congress heard an abler or more telling address . Webster said , on leaving the hall ...
... reputation as an orator had preceded him , and the House was crowded with those who desired to test the quality of his eloquence . Rarely has Congress heard an abler or more telling address . Webster said , on leaving the hall ...
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