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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... France 129 CARDINAL MERCIER Coronation Day Sermon 132 GEORGES CLEMENCEAU One Aim : Victory . 136 ALEXANDER KERENSKY To Workingmen and Soldiers . 139 LEON TROTZKY To the Red Army . 140 NIKOLAI LENIN The Dictatorship of the Proletariat ...
... France 129 CARDINAL MERCIER Coronation Day Sermon 132 GEORGES CLEMENCEAU One Aim : Victory . 136 ALEXANDER KERENSKY To Workingmen and Soldiers . 139 LEON TROTZKY To the Red Army . 140 NIKOLAI LENIN The Dictatorship of the Proletariat ...
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... FRANCE The Search for International Cooperation . DAG HAMMARSKJOLD NICKOLAI ALEKSANDROVICH BULGANIN The Lessening of International Tension FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT On Architecture ALBERT EINSTEIN WILLIAM FAULKNER 623 Values of Nationalism and ...
... FRANCE The Search for International Cooperation . DAG HAMMARSKJOLD NICKOLAI ALEKSANDROVICH BULGANIN The Lessening of International Tension FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT On Architecture ALBERT EINSTEIN WILLIAM FAULKNER 623 Values of Nationalism and ...
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... France , and for many years abbot of Clairvaux , was one of the foremost and most eloquent advocates of the Second Crusade ( 1146 ) , which ended disastrously in Asia Minor . A SECOND CRUSADE YOU CANNOT but know that we live in a period ...
... France , and for many years abbot of Clairvaux , was one of the foremost and most eloquent advocates of the Second Crusade ( 1146 ) , which ended disastrously in Asia Minor . A SECOND CRUSADE YOU CANNOT but know that we live in a period ...
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... France . At such a moment this national assembly becomes a veritable committee of war . We ask that you concur with ... France . [ Applause . ] To conquer we have need to dare , to dare again , ever to dare ! And the safety of France is ...
... France . At such a moment this national assembly becomes a veritable committee of war . We ask that you concur with ... France . [ Applause . ] To conquer we have need to dare , to dare again , ever to dare ! And the safety of France is ...
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... FRANCE BE FREE ” The general considerations that have been presented to you are true ; but at this moment it is less necessary to examine the causes of the disasters that have struck us than to apply their remedy rapidly . When the ...
... FRANCE BE FREE ” The general considerations that have been presented to you are true ; but at this moment it is less necessary to examine the causes of the disasters that have struck us than to apply their remedy rapidly . When the ...
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