The World's Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) EditionLewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna Courier Corporation, 2012 M04 24 - 944 páginas 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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... meets with no obstacle to preferment from his first obscurity . The offices of the state we go through without obstructions from one another ; and live together in the mutual endearments of private life without suspicions ; not angry ...
... meets with no obstacle to preferment from his first obscurity . The offices of the state we go through without obstructions from one another ; and live together in the mutual endearments of private life without suspicions ; not angry ...
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... meet with some good . Moreover , we may hence conclude that there is great hope that death is a blessing . For to die is one of two things : for either the dead may be annihilated and have no sensation of anything whatever ; or , as it ...
... meet with some good . Moreover , we may hence conclude that there is great hope that death is a blessing . For to die is one of two things : for either the dead may be annihilated and have no sensation of anything whatever ; or , as it ...
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... meet those who had treated contemptuously the whole of Hellas with their private force , a few against many myriads , as if about to brave the danger in the case of the lives of others , while the others no sooner heard of the war being ...
... meet those who had treated contemptuously the whole of Hellas with their private force , a few against many myriads , as if about to brave the danger in the case of the lives of others , while the others no sooner heard of the war being ...
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... meet even the deserved punish- ment of his crimes , when the whole community is in danger of being involved in his destruction . Cato , the Elder [ 234 B.C. - 149 B.C. ] Known as the Censor , and as the Elder to distinguish him from his ...
... meet even the deserved punish- ment of his crimes , when the whole community is in danger of being involved in his destruction . Cato , the Elder [ 234 B.C. - 149 B.C. ] Known as the Censor , and as the Elder to distinguish him from his ...
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... meet death rather in battle than in flight . If this be well fixed and determined in the minds of you all , I will repeat , you have already conquered ; no stronger incentive to victory has been given to man by the immortal gods ...
... meet death rather in battle than in flight . If this be well fixed and determined in the minds of you all , I will repeat , you have already conquered ; no stronger incentive to victory has been given to man by the immortal gods ...
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The World's Great Speeches Lewis Copeland,Lawrence W. Lamm,Stephen J. McKenna Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
The World's Great Speeches Lewis Copeland,Lawrence W. Lamm,Stephen J. McKenna Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
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