Famous Americans of Recent TimesHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 473 стор. |
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... orator to be informed of what had been done , but not of the names of the donors . " Could my life insure the success of Henry Clay , I would freely lay it down this day , " exclaimed an old Rhode Island sea - captain on the morning of ...
... orator to be informed of what had been done , but not of the names of the donors . " Could my life insure the success of Henry Clay , I would freely lay it down this day , " exclaimed an old Rhode Island sea - captain on the morning of ...
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... orator was the man most in request in the dawn of freedom . Chatham , Burke , Fox , Sheridan , and Pitt were inconceivably imposing names at that day ; but was not Patrick Henry the foremost man in Virginia , only because he could speak ...
... orator was the man most in request in the dawn of freedom . Chatham , Burke , Fox , Sheridan , and Pitt were inconceivably imposing names at that day ; but was not Patrick Henry the foremost man in Virginia , only because he could speak ...
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... orator ; but Clay was a kindred spirit with Demosthenes . We could select passages from both these orators , and no man could tell which was American and which was Greek , unless he chanced to remember the passage . Tell us , gentle ...
... orator ; but Clay was a kindred spirit with Demosthenes . We could select passages from both these orators , and no man could tell which was American and which was Greek , unless he chanced to remember the passage . Tell us , gentle ...
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... orator always wins who gives powerful expression to the sentiments of his hearers . We cannot wonder that , at the close of an impassioned address upon the Alien and Sedition Laws , the multitude should have pressed about him , and ...
... orator always wins who gives powerful expression to the sentiments of his hearers . We cannot wonder that , at the close of an impassioned address upon the Alien and Sedition Laws , the multitude should have pressed about him , and ...
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... orator . Having set the ball in motion , he could not stop it ; nor does he appear to have felt the necessity cf stopping it , until , in 1831 , he was suddenly confronted by three Gorgons at once , a coming Surplus , a President that ...
... orator . Having set the ball in motion , he could not stop it ; nor does he appear to have felt the necessity cf stopping it , until , in 1831 , he was suddenly confronted by three Gorgons at once , a coming Surplus , a President that ...
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