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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... spirit , to put forth my own sentiments in relation to a great national question of public policy . Such was my course . The gentle- man from Missouri ( Mr. Benton ) , it is true , had charged upon the Eastern States an early and ...
... spirit , to put forth my own sentiments in relation to a great national question of public policy . Such was my course . The gentle- man from Missouri ( Mr. Benton ) , it is true , had charged upon the Eastern States an early and ...
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... spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies , I have yet none , as I trust , of that other spirit which would drag angels down . When I shall be found , sir , in my place here in the Senate , or elsewhere , to sneer at public ...
... spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies , I have yet none , as I trust , of that other spirit which would drag angels down . When I shall be found , sir , in my place here in the Senate , or elsewhere , to sneer at public ...
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... by the red hand of mur- der , he was thrust from the full tide of this world's interest , from its WIT BOOK IV . Recent Political Orators WITH the passing James A Garfield The Evil Spirit of Disloyalty James G Blaine A Eulogy of Garfield.
... by the red hand of mur- der , he was thrust from the full tide of this world's interest , from its WIT BOOK IV . Recent Political Orators WITH the passing James A Garfield The Evil Spirit of Disloyalty James G Blaine A Eulogy of Garfield.
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... inflexible conscience for the right , and yet his gentleness , as tender as a woman's , his moderation of spirit , which not all the heat of party could inflame , nor all the jars " MARK TWAIN " TELLING A STORY Samuel M. Clemens 264.
... inflexible conscience for the right , and yet his gentleness , as tender as a woman's , his moderation of spirit , which not all the heat of party could inflame , nor all the jars " MARK TWAIN " TELLING A STORY Samuel M. Clemens 264.
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... spirit , the raciness , and verbal originality to which the latter owed much of his effect on the public , yet he was one of the most admired pulpit orators of the coun- try during the greater part of his career . He was more polished ...
... spirit , the raciness , and verbal originality to which the latter owed much of his effect on the public , yet he was one of the most admired pulpit orators of the coun- try during the greater part of his career . He was more polished ...
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