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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... selection , was delivered in 1887 , at the annual banquet of the New England Club in New York . The banquets of this club have often been made the occasion for speeches upon topics of national importance , but none of these have ...
... selection , was delivered in 1887 , at the annual banquet of the New England Club in New York . The banquets of this club have often been made the occasion for speeches upon topics of national importance , but none of these have ...
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... selection from his address in 1898 , on the semi - centennial of Girard College , Philadelphia . Reed's method did not usually reach this elevation in senti- ment and breadth of view , being rather controversial than dignified , and we ...
... selection from his address in 1898 , on the semi - centennial of Girard College , Philadelphia . Reed's method did not usually reach this elevation in senti- ment and breadth of view , being rather controversial than dignified , and we ...
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... selections , therefore , we are confined to the two commonwealths , the United States and Canada . While the history of the former has been marked by great exigencies that called forth noble efforts of oratorical art , the same may be ...
... selections , therefore , we are confined to the two commonwealths , the United States and Canada . While the history of the former has been marked by great exigencies that called forth noble efforts of oratorical art , the same may be ...
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... selection follows . ] This is a magnificent festival ; but , contrary to the rule , it is greater relatively than absolutely . Grand as it is , its grandeur is enhanced when we think that at this moment , not merely in London is the ...
... selection follows . ] This is a magnificent festival ; but , contrary to the rule , it is greater relatively than absolutely . Grand as it is , its grandeur is enhanced when we think that at this moment , not merely in London is the ...
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... selections from the leading pulpit orators , therefore , it seems best to take them , as a rule , from the secu- lar efforts of these eloquent men . The moral force and the trained oratory remain , and with these is associated a living ...
... selections from the leading pulpit orators , therefore , it seems best to take them , as a rule , from the secu- lar efforts of these eloquent men . The moral force and the trained oratory remain , and with these is associated a living ...
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