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Books on: famous orations

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Journal Articles on: famous orations

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Newspaper Articles on: famous orations

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    We Will Miss You, Maggie
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 26, 2002
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...rhetorical fusillade as Thatcheresque as any of her famous orations while in power, Maggie aimed her considerable intellect...future, then let us at least rejoice in one of her most famous declarations. "I stand before you tonight in my green...
     
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    Pope Condemns Economic Embargo
    Newspaper article by Tom Carter; The Washington Times, January 26, 1998
    Subjects: 
    Castro, Fidel, Cuba
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the scowling visage of Che Guevera in Revolutionary Square - the same place President Fidel Castro grew famous for his long-winded orations - John Paul set out to redefine Cubas revolution. "Liberation cannot be reduced to its social and political...
     
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    Campaigning Preacher Dies after Release from Hospital
    Newspaper article by Eileen Murphy, Chris Moncrieff; The Birmingham Post (England), December 23, 1998
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Cambridge and the London School of Economics, where he obtained his doctorate in philosophy. He began his famous Sunday afternoon soap-box orations at Speakers Corner in Londons Hyde Park in the early 1940s. "Soapie", as he became affectionately...
     
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    Obama Made It Because His Folks Got out of Here
    Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 23, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...need to hang on the coat-tails of the famous and even the infamous. It has probably...never mind deliver one of the greatest orations ever seen on television. Just look at...instead of delivering one of the greatest orations since Lincoln at Gettysburg. Or is that...
     
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    Jimmy Reid, Scotland's Finest Orator
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 30, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Times called it the greatest oration since the Gettysburg Address...April 28, 1972. Now the famous Rat Race speech has been named...These are the top four of 65 orations in a new book, Great Scottish...His speech included the famous lines: A rat race is for...if courage goes. Only one oration by a sporting personality...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: famous orations

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    Cicero , Roman Orator
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...greatest Roman orator, famous also as a politician and...of Ciceros works are his orations, which have become the standard of Latin. The most famous of these are the Orations...Philippics against Antony. Other famous speeches are Against Verres...
     
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    Seneca , the Elder, C.60 B.C.–c.A.D. 37, Roman Rhetorician and Writer
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...as they might be argued before a court of law; and Persuasions, model orations on various subjects. The prefaces to the Controversies contain valuable material on famous Roman orators. He also wrote a history of Rome from the time of the civil...
     
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    Oratory
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...usually spoke to men of their own class and education, their orations were often complex and erudite, abounding in classical allusions...profoundly influenced the oratorical style of many politicians. Famous 19th cent. orators included Disraeli and John Bright in England...
     

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