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The World's Famous Orations - Vol. 1

Book by William Jennings Bryan, Francis W. Halsey; Funk and Wagnalls, 1906

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Speeches, Addresses, Etc

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The Worlds Famous Orations VOL. I GREECE 432 B.C.-324 B.C. THE WORLDS FAMOUS ORATIONS WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF...propriety of making a collection of the famous orations of the world for the benefit of...
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The World's Famous Orations - Vol. 7

Book by William Jennings Bryan, Francis W. Halsey; Funk and Wagnalls, 1906

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The Worlds Famous Orations VOL. VII CONTINENTAL...380-1906 THE WORLDS FAMOUS ORATIONS WILLIAM JENNINGS...volumes. His "Funeral Orations" are now perhaps the...given, two others are famous--those on Henrietta...
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The World's Famous Orations - Vol. 2

Book by William Jennings Bryan, Francis W. Halsey; Funk & Wagnalls, 1906

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Fiction, Speeches, Addresses, Etc

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The World's Famous Orations VOL. II ROME 218 B.C.-84 A.D. THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF...to Carthage to 150. Of Cato's orations, numbering at least 150, only fragments...
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The World's Famous Orations - Vol. 3

Book by William Jennings Bryan, Francis W. Halsey; Funk & Wagnalls, 1906

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Speeches, Addresses, Etc

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THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS Vol. III GREAT BRITAIN-I 710-1777 THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF...if I tempt thee once again." This famous queen, not fully trust ing the report...
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The World's Famous Orations - Vol. 8

Book by William Jennings Bryan, Francis W. Halsey; Funk & Wagnalls, 1906

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Speeches, Addresses, Etc

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The Worlds Famous Orations VOL. VIII AMERICA--I 1761-1837 THE WORLDS FAMOUS ORATIONS WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN EDITOR...1 Of this famous speech by Otis, we have no report...

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Humanism and Scholasticism in Sixteenth- Century Academe. Five Student Orations from the University of Salamanca [*]

Journal article by Katherine Elliot Van Liere; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 53, 2000

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College students--Addresses, essays, lectures, Orations--16th century, Renaissance--Social aspects, Salamanca, Spain--16th century

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...THE ACADEMIC SETTING As student exercises, these five orations are unusual among the surviving literature from sixteenth-century...from this period was produced by university teachers; the more famous examples include the repetitiones of humanist Antonio de Nebrija...
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Marriage, Sexual Pleasure, and Learned Brides in the Wedding Orations of Fifteenth Century Italy *

Journal article by Anthony F. D'Elia; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 55, 2002

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Kings and rulers--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Kings--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Marriage customs and rites--15th century AD, Marriage customs--15th century AD, Marriage--History

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...categories of praise. Most orations were constructed in the same...asked to be silent. There the famous doctor of law, Pandolfo Collenuccio...31) Since humanists became famous for their oratory, and orations were delivered at aristocratic...
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Three Faces of the Future

Journal article by Jean Goodwin; Argumentation and Advocacy, Vol. 37, 2000

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Lectures and lecturing--Forecasts, Orations--Forecasts, Orators--Forecasts, Public speaking--Forecasts, Rhetoric--Forecasts

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...neat in practice. Consider some of the early Boston Massacre orations, for example: You are to decide the important question on...Theosy of Vivid Description as Practiced in Ciceros Verrine Orations. Rhetorica 12, 355-381. Jackson, J. (1996). Jesse Jackson...
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Minow's Viewers: Understanding the Response to the "Vast Wasteland" Address

Journal article by James L. Baughman; Federal Communications Law Journal, Vol. 55, 2003

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Children in television--History, Minow, Newton N.--Influence, Orations--Influence, Speeches, addresses, etc.--Influence, Television broadcasting policy--History, Television--History, United States. Federal Communications Commission--History

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...N. Minow, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission"), gave what is probably the most famous speech ever delivered by the head of an American regulatory agency. It remains the single most searing indictment of television...
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Vowels: A Voice-Based Web Engine for Locating Speeches

Journal article by Joaquin Vila, Billy Lim, Archana Anajpure; Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, Vol. 13, 2004

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Internet/Web search services--Product development, Orations, Search engines--Product development, Speeches, Speeches, addresses, etc.

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...is restricted to selected speeches of famous and infamous figures of the twentieth...allows the retrieval of speeches given by famous and infamous figures of the twentieth...is the collection of speeches given by famous and infamous figures of the twentieth...

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Fight. No Surrender No 4005

Magazine article; New Statesman, Vol. 136, November 26, 2007

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Orations--Competitions, Speeches, addresses, etc.--Competitions, Speeches--Competitions

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...moaned a Tory supporter about David Camerons too-long conference speech. We asked you to do "on the doorstep" versions of famous speeches, in fact or fiction Report by Ms de Meaner The headline of this comp should have read: "Fight. Beaches. No surrender...
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Our Greatest Speech

Magazine article by Richard Lischer; The Christian Century, Vol. 120, August 23, 2003

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Civil rights--Political aspects, King, Martin Luther, Jr.--Addresses, essays, lectures, King, Martin Luther, Jr.--Public opinion, Orations--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Speeches, addresses, etc.--Criticism, interpretation, etc., United States--Religious aspects, United States--Social aspects

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...Baptist preacher and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the defining speech of his generation and the most famous oration of the 20th century. Writing in the New York Times the next day, James Reston promptly recognized Kings achievement...
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Policy Is the Best Honesty

Magazine article by Paul Glastris; Washington Monthly, Vol. 40, April 2008

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Bush, George W.--Evaluation, Ghostwriters--Political aspects, Honesty--Political aspects, Orations--Evaluation, Orations--Political aspects, President of the United States--Evaluation, Speeches, addresses, etc.--Evaluation, Speeches, addresses, etc.--Political aspects, Speeches--Evaluation, Speeches--Political aspects, Speechwriters--Political aspects, Speechwriters--Practice

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...author, the son of Arthur Schlesinger Jr., comes by his subject honestly). One of many revealing anecdotes involves the now-famous deliberations among John F. Kennedy and his senior advisors in October 1962 upon learning that the Soviets had placed nuclear...
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Man and Monument

Magazine article by Tracy Lee Simmons; National Review, Vol. 54, October 28, 2002

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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (Book)

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...Gallic Wars behind them, they were assigned Ciceros famous orations against Catiline, with their haughtiness, dense vocabulary...their last examinations in solid geometry and Ciceros Orations," Thornton Wilder has the Stage Manager tell us in...
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No Comment

Magazine article; The Progressive, Vol. 65, February 2001

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Guevara, Ernesto--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Political activists--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Ships--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Titanic (Ship)--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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...Che From a Reuters on-line report datelined London on the famous photo of Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara and the...in the Penguin Dictionary of Quotations alongside the great orations of wartime leader Winston Churchill." Cyber Scholarship...

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We Will Miss You, Maggie

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 26, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, 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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'Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall'

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 16, 2002

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Gorbachev, Mikhail, Reagan, Ronald

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the anniversaries of the Gippers historic, freedom-cherishing orations, we note that the Soviet Unions collapse upon the ash heap...not-at-all fragile flower." In an adaptation of Winston Churchills famous Iron Curtain speech delivered 36 years earlier in Fulton, Mo...
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What Happened to History?

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 7, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...acknowledgment of prior generations characterized the best orations of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, who...of a Ward Churchill - plagiarist and faker - as he becomes famous for calling the 3,000 murdered on September 11, 2001, "little...
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In Normal, They Know Who'l Be President.And It Isn't Going to Be Senator Chloroform; Forget the Babble and Chaos of the Big Cities, America's Small Towns Are the True Heart of the Nation - and They've Bad News for John Kerry

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 5, 2004

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Bush, George W., Kerry, John F.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...enough to change channels in time to avoid the strange, guttural orations of Arnold Schwarzenegger and the embarrassing public debut...passport. But it is closer to the American reality than the famous cities of the East. Here, a little more than 100 miles southwest...
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Pope Condemns Economic Embargo

Newspaper article by Tom Carter; The Washington Times, January 26, 1998

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Castro, Fidel, Cuba

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, 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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Cicero , Roman Orator

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...greatest Roman orator, famous also as a politician...Ciceros works are his orations, which have become the...standard of Latin. The most famous of these are the Orations against Catiline, on...against Antony. Other famous speeches are Against...
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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, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, 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, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, 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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