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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... fight for a great enterprise are the men that bear the brunt of the battle , and " He who seeth in secret " -seeth the desire of his children , their steady purpose , their firm self - denial- " will reward them openly , " though they ...
... fight for a great enterprise are the men that bear the brunt of the battle , and " He who seeth in secret " -seeth the desire of his children , their steady purpose , their firm self - denial- " will reward them openly , " though they ...
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... fight for Pro- hibition down in Maine , and then he said : I wonder if poor , rum- cursed Wisconsin will ever get a law like that ! And mother rocked awhile in silence , in the dear old chair I love , and then she gently said : " Yes ...
... fight for Pro- hibition down in Maine , and then he said : I wonder if poor , rum- cursed Wisconsin will ever get a law like that ! And mother rocked awhile in silence , in the dear old chair I love , and then she gently said : " Yes ...
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... fighting for rights guar- anteed by our country and exercised by their employers . They are en- gaged in a life and ... fight . I have an abiding faith in the American people . Once they believe that a wrong has been perpetrated the ...
... fighting for rights guar- anteed by our country and exercised by their employers . They are en- gaged in a life and ... fight . I have an abiding faith in the American people . Once they believe that a wrong has been perpetrated the ...
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... fighting for his life and his country , two causes abundantly well calculated to rouse a man to the supreme exercise of his faculties , and as a master- piece of extemporaneous eloquence this impassioned speech has no superior in any ...
... fighting for his life and his country , two causes abundantly well calculated to rouse a man to the supreme exercise of his faculties , and as a master- piece of extemporaneous eloquence this impassioned speech has no superior in any ...
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