The World's Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) EditionLewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna Courier Corporation, 24. apr. 2012 - 944 sider This outstanding compendium of 292 great speeches contains addresses from nearly every historical era and nation, from the formal orations of ancient Greece and the speeches of Julius Caesar, to modern-day addresses by Nelson Mandela, Ronald Regan and Václav Havel. Among the memorable speeches included here are Pericles' funeral oration, St. Bernard's advocacy of the Second Crusade, William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech, Winston Churchill's "Blood, Sweat and Tears" address, Richard Nixon's speech to the astronauts on the moon, Malcolm X's address on the Black Revolution, and many more. Readers will also find time-honored declamations by St. Francis, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Napoleon, Victor Hugo, Leon Trotzky, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Dylan Thomas, Fulton J. Sheen, Adlai Stevenson, Walter Reuther, and many others−over 240 speakers in all. For this newly updated edition, Stephen J. McKenna, Assistant Professor of English at The Catholic University of America, has added 14 important speeches delivered between 1974 and 1997. These new selections include Barbara Jordan's Opening Statement to the House Judiciary Committee for the Nixon Impeachment Proceedings (1974); Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address (1978); Ronald Regan's First Inaugural Address (1981): Nelson Mandela's Address to a Rally in Cape Town on His Release from Prison (1990); Václav Havel's Address to a Joint Session of Congress (1990); the Earl of Spencer's Tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales (1997); and more. Rich with drama of history, the speeches in this volume will serve you time and time again by suggesting provocative themes and historical parallels, and by providing apt quotations, important reference passages, and a wide range of other valuable material. |
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... race to be of this nature . The advantages , then , which we possessed from the beginning , and which were bestowed upon us by fortune , are so great in magnitude ; but of how great advantages we have been the cause to the rest we ...
... race to be of this nature . The advantages , then , which we possessed from the beginning , and which were bestowed upon us by fortune , are so great in magnitude ; but of how great advantages we have been the cause to the rest we ...
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... race of males was utterly extirpated by a conspiracy of the women . But the utmost danger may be apprehended equally from either sex if you suffer cabals and secret consultations to be held : scarcely indeed can Í determine , in my own ...
... race of males was utterly extirpated by a conspiracy of the women . But the utmost danger may be apprehended equally from either sex if you suffer cabals and secret consultations to be held : scarcely indeed can Í determine , in my own ...
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... race and name . Preserve , I beseech you , O Romans , this attribute which your ancestors have left you as a sort of inheritance . Although all other things are uncertain , fleeting , transitory , virtue alone is planted firm with very ...
... race and name . Preserve , I beseech you , O Romans , this attribute which your ancestors have left you as a sort of inheritance . Although all other things are uncertain , fleeting , transitory , virtue alone is planted firm with very ...
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... race might not perish out of the world ; still more are ye beholden to Him for the element of the air which He hath appointed for you ; beyond all this , ye sow not , neither do you reap ; and God feedeth you , and giveth you the ...
... race might not perish out of the world ; still more are ye beholden to Him for the element of the air which He hath appointed for you ; beyond all this , ye sow not , neither do you reap ; and God feedeth you , and giveth you the ...
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... race by the caprices of his wanton cruelties . But as it is not the deeds of his private life , but the crimes of his reign that we are judging , it must be confessed that this long list of accusations against Louis which our committee ...
... race by the caprices of his wanton cruelties . But as it is not the deeds of his private life , but the crimes of his reign that we are judging , it must be confessed that this long list of accusations against Louis which our committee ...
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