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Crowned Masterpieces of Eloquence that Have Advanced Civilization: As Presented by the World's Best Orations, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

... PAGE Icelandic Literature - Continued » « Völuspa , The , quoted .. Yggdrasill , the World Ash .. Idealism , Carlyle on ... Steele , Sir Richard : The character of Isaac Bickerstaff , 9 : 3552 ; Bickerstaff and Maria , 9 : 3556 ; Sir ...

The Presidential Campaign, 1976: President Gerald R. Ford. 2 v

... trip , which is total . Q. I think the issue was that other candidates have to pay for their ex- penses and air travel reservations in advance , and this being one of the in- equities they cite . Ford . We are paying precisely according ...

Demosthenes with English notes

... hero of the hour ? " 06. ] ponam : ' depict : ' ' represent . ' Bártaλov . ] Some MSS . have Báraλov , but not so ... flute - player or poet Batalus , notorious for his effeminacy : ( 2 ) as the name of the vπоTÓдLOV ( instrument for beating ...

American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses by the Most Eminent Orators of America

... death , 285 . Speech in defence of the British soldiers , 1770 , 285 ; the distinction between murder and ... freedom ; death of Charles Townsend , and inauguration of Lord North ; election to the Continental Congress ; the cir- cular ...

Eloquence of the United States

... page should be inscribed — whether it should open a great ærȧ of permanent good ... wild theo- ries of Turgot , De Mably , and Price ; and Mr. Jeffer- · son in ... character and talents to this new and momentous experiment on the capacity ...

The Treasury of British Eloquence: Specimens of Brilliant Orations by the Most Eminent Statesmen, Divines, Etc., of Great Britain of the Last Four Centuries ; with Biographical and Critical Notices and Index

... to vindicate the English character in the East ; for , my Lords , it is manifest that the native powers have so little reliance on our faith , that the preservation of our possessions in that division of the world can only be effected ...

M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: With a commentary

... Consilium capit primo stultum , verumtamen clemens . Navarchos ad se vocari jubet . Veniunt . populi Romani & c ... QUINTUS . 585.

Ten orations of Cicero: with selections from the Letters

... Milo and killed the driver of the coach . Milo's slaves , hearing that their master was dead , did what all faithful ... dangerous demagogue in check . Again , Milo had no personal animosity toward Clodius , while Clodius hated Milo ...

After-dinner speeches

Thomas Brackett Reed. A RUN ON THE BANKER [ Speech of Simeon Ford at the ... Secretary Gage would be here , and Mr. J. P. Morgan , and that without my ... Secretary Gage made one serious mistake . If he had consulted me ( which he never ...

The Presidential Campaign, 1976

you can't control inflation , unless you have a lot of people out of work ... weren't needed— they're being phased out . Let's look at the record . When ... Again in 1968 we had this demonstrated not very well . Had just one person per ...

American Book of Ready-made Speeches; Containing Original Examples of Humorous & Serious Speeches

... Speech .. PAGE . .102 ..103 For a St. Patrick's Day Dinner .. ... 104 For the Eighth of January - a lively little Speech ... President of the Club ... ..115 Visit of a Fire Company - Reception Speech addressed to the Foreman.115 Reply by the ...

Representative American Speeches

... mean that we should literally reintroduce them into the curriculum . But we ... Copybook Headings . " Let me read it to you : the poet speaks as the voice of mankind . As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race , I make my proper ...

Addresses by the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew ...

... memory which he repeated every night . Gov- ernor Ford , a practical joker , with a marvelous memory , asked the privilege of speaking first , and he delivered Chase's speech . Chase came forward and , with great dignity , said : That ...

Banquet and dinner speeches

... memory which he repeated every night . Governor Ford , a prac- tical joker , with a marvelous memory , asked the privilege of speaking first , and he delivered Chase's speech . Chase came forward and , with great dignity , said : That ...

Orations, Addresses and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew

... memory which he repeated every night . Governor Ford , a prac- tical joker , with a marvelous memory , asked the privilege of speaking first , and he delivered Chase's speech . Chase came forward and , with great dignity , said : That ...

Isocrates: a public lecture delivered by request in University College, Oxford

... Isocrates attends to advise a conference , held at Oxford , about the wisdom of passing this law . I. Proem . ISOCRATES RISES § 1. ' I thought I had earned my rest , but I come , begging you to forgive a speech that lacks the graces of ...

Homer. Pericles. Nicias. Cleon. Gorgias. Antiphon. Socrates. Anocides. Lysias. Alcibiades. Isocrates. Xenophon. Isaeus. Lycurgus. Hyperides. Aeschines. Demosthenes

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine. ISOCRATES ISOCRATES , one of the ten most famous Attic orators , was born in 436 B.C. He His father was an Athenian citizen possessed of considerable wealth . himself tells us that his father was careful to ...

Representative American Speeches

... menajeria cu un nepoţel de mîna doua, de, cam, zece-doisprezece ani. Tăticul său murise lăsînd veşnica pomenire şi praful de pe tobă, iar mămica lui zăcea în spital, într'un sanatoriu, de fapt, avînd plămînii slabi şi chiar niţel atinşi ...

Political speeches

... intelligent optimist must work out these problems if they are to be worked out for the glory of our country . No moss - covered prejudices nor antiquated theories must curb this magnificent advance . It has been estimated by one of the ...

The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster: Comprising Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson; First Settlement of New England; Bunker Hill Monument; Reply to Hayne

Comprising Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson; First Settlement of New England ... speech of mine in the other house , the same which I had occasion to allude to ... Wednesday is in exact accordance with the opinions expressed by me in the ...

The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster, Comprising Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson: First Settlement of New England

... Wednesday , I contended that we could not give away gratuitously all the public lands ; that we held them in trust ; that the government had solemnly pledged itself to dispose of them as a common fund for the common benefit , and to ...

Philippics

... significarent se beneficio novo memoriam veteris doloris abiecisse . 31 hanc ... auspiciorum a te ipso augure populi Romani nuntiato ( rum ) , illo primum ... significa ( ue ) runt bensv se om . V 31 7 te D 10 oratio tua Muretus senatus ...

Orations, Addresses and Club Essays

... writing King John , Julius Caesar , Hamlet , Lear and Othello and Macbeth ... Presentation of history of the times - When writing most of the plays he was ... essay of death - Is in style and ex- pression and thought eminently ...

American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses by the Most Eminent Orators of America

... government , and yet it makes no ... power to raise any money at all . Why ? Because they have the power of the sword ; and if we give them the power of the purse ... ap - ual States will quarrel , if they want to fight , pointed by yourselves ...

The Household Book of Iris Eloquence: Containing the Select Speeches of Daniel O'Connell, Richard Lalor Sheil, John Philpot Curran, Henry Grattan, Edmund Burke, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Charles Phillips, Robert Emmet, Whiteside, Meagher, McGee

... authority . To such persons the authority of Mr. Foster , his Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer for Ireland , would probably be conclusive , and Mr. Foster has assured us that final ruin to our country must be the consequence of the ...

Orations Delivered at Minnesota Inter-collegiate Oratorical Contests, 1881-1886

... Hamline University , Secy , and Treas . Vice President . " " Secy , and Treas . 1885 F. W. HART , Hamline University , J. M. ANDERSON , University of Minnesota , J. W. FOLLENSBEE , Hamline University , E. A. EMERY , University of ...

Orations

... Hamline University , Vice Secy , and Treas . President . Secy . and Treas . 1885 F. W. HART , Hamline University , J. M. ANDERSON , University of Minnesota , J. W. FOLLENSBEE , Hamline University , E. A. EMERY , University of Minnesota ...

Classics of the Bar: Stories of the World's Great Jury Trials and a Compilation of Forensic Masterpieces

... Stanford White's last on earth , this is the story that she related to her husband . She told him that Miss Mae Mac- kenzie had told her that Stanford White had been to the hospital to see her ; that she , Mae Mackenzie , had said to ...

Great Speeches That Changed the World

Discover 70 great speeches from leaders such as Winston Churchill, Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Shirley Chisholm, Ronald Reagan, Gloria Steinem, Bill Gates, and many more.

World's Greatest Speeches

It is hoped that this selection of the world's greatest speeches will prompt the reader to pause awhile and ponder on their timeless relevance and significance.

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