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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... stands the great monu- ment to the " Father of his Country , " on an elevated situation in the National Capi- tal . Of obelisk shape , and towering 555 feet in the air , it dominates the landscape for miles around . Projected early in ...
... stands the great monu- ment to the " Father of his Country , " on an elevated situation in the National Capi- tal . Of obelisk shape , and towering 555 feet in the air , it dominates the landscape for miles around . Projected early in ...
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... stand rebuked . We are not dealing with the con- cerns of a city , a province or a state , but with the future of our race in all time to come . N NICHOLAS FLOOD DAVIN ( 1843-1901 ) EDITOR , AUTHOR 228 Joseph Howe 228 Canada and the ...
... stand rebuked . We are not dealing with the con- cerns of a city , a province or a state , but with the future of our race in all time to come . N NICHOLAS FLOOD DAVIN ( 1843-1901 ) EDITOR , AUTHOR 228 Joseph Howe 228 Canada and the ...
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... stands certainly in the very front rank of orators of his country or any country , of his age or any age . I remember when Louis Blanc was in England , in the days of the Second Empire , he used to write to the press of Paris , and in ...
... stands certainly in the very front rank of orators of his country or any country , of his age or any age . I remember when Louis Blanc was in England , in the days of the Second Empire , he used to write to the press of Paris , and in ...
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... stand publicly in a memorable speech at Faneuil Hall in 1837 , which Dr. Channing designated as " morally sublime . " So bitter did Phillips become in his hatred of the slavery system , that he refused to practice law under a ...
... stand publicly in a memorable speech at Faneuil Hall in 1837 , which Dr. Channing designated as " morally sublime . " So bitter did Phillips become in his hatred of the slavery system , that he refused to practice law under a ...
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... stand where they stand now , and see the mighty enterprise as it rises before them . They worked hard . They lifted the first turf - prepared the bed in which to lay the corner - stone . They laid it amid persecution and storm . They ...
... stand where they stand now , and see the mighty enterprise as it rises before them . They worked hard . They lifted the first turf - prepared the bed in which to lay the corner - stone . They laid it amid persecution and storm . They ...
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