The World's Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) EditionLewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna Courier Corporation, 24 d’abr. 2012 - 944 pàgines 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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... England , 1997 , is reprinted with permission of the Author . Copyright Copyright © 1999 by Dover Publications , Inc. All rights reserved . Bibliographical Note This Dover edition , first published in 1999 , is a revised and enlarged ...
... England , 1997 , is reprinted with permission of the Author . Copyright Copyright © 1999 by Dover Publications , Inc. All rights reserved . Bibliographical Note This Dover edition , first published in 1999 , is a revised and enlarged ...
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... England Weather The Babies Woman , God Bless Her !. CHARLES William Eliot Harvard and Yale . 690 • 692 693 • 696 698 700 HENRY WATTERSON The Puritan and the Cavalier . 702 JOHN HAY Omar Khayyam . 706 SIR HENRY IRVING LORD CECIL The ...
... England Weather The Babies Woman , God Bless Her !. CHARLES William Eliot Harvard and Yale . 690 • 692 693 • 696 698 700 HENRY WATTERSON The Puritan and the Cavalier . 702 JOHN HAY Omar Khayyam . 706 SIR HENRY IRVING LORD CECIL The ...
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... England the war which actually we had long been making , that we would double the difficulties of our campaign , in giving our enemies the time to deploy their forces . Since we failed to recognize this stroke of his genius , we must ...
... England the war which actually we had long been making , that we would double the difficulties of our campaign , in giving our enemies the time to deploy their forces . Since we failed to recognize this stroke of his genius , we must ...
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... England . She has openly violated her oath , and refuses to offer any explanation of her strange conduct till the French eagle shall have passed the Rhine , and consequently shall have left her allies at her discretion . Russia is ...
... England . She has openly violated her oath , and refuses to offer any explanation of her strange conduct till the French eagle shall have passed the Rhine , and consequently shall have left her allies at her discretion . Russia is ...
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... England , represent the same point of view . Russia alone declared that she must have a word in the settlement of this dispute . With this the danger of European en- tanglements raised its threatening head . [ " Very true ! " ] As soon ...
... England , represent the same point of view . Russia alone declared that she must have a word in the settlement of this dispute . With this the danger of European en- tanglements raised its threatening head . [ " Very true ! " ] As soon ...
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