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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... cause to the rest we should thus best investigate , if we should go through in detail the time from the commencement , and the exploits of the State in succession ; for we shall find that she not only [ delivered us ] from the dangers ...
... cause to the rest we should thus best investigate , if we should go through in detail the time from the commencement , and the exploits of the State in succession ; for we shall find that she not only [ delivered us ] from the dangers ...
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... cause of every- thing . But if many that never saw me or heard my voice have been grievously afflicted , not individuals only but whole cities and nations ; how much juster and fairer is it to consider , that to the common fortune ...
... cause of every- thing . But if many that never saw me or heard my voice have been grievously afflicted , not individuals only but whole cities and nations ; how much juster and fairer is it to consider , that to the common fortune ...
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... cause of Greece . Should he choose you for allies , you would serve him so far only as justice would permit ; but if he attached himself to them , he gained assistants in all the schemes of his ambition . This it is that then determined ...
... cause of Greece . Should he choose you for allies , you would serve him so far only as justice would permit ; but if he attached himself to them , he gained assistants in all the schemes of his ambition . This it is that then determined ...
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... cause of Thebes more just than ours . This of all pretenses he cannot now allege . Can he , who commands the Lacedæmonians to quit their claim to Messene , pretend that , in giving up Orchomenus and Coronea to the Thebans , he acted ...
... cause of Thebes more just than ours . This of all pretenses he cannot now allege . Can he , who commands the Lacedæmonians to quit their claim to Messene , pretend that , in giving up Orchomenus and Coronea to the Thebans , he acted ...
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... cause : What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment ; thou are fled to brutish beasts , And men have lost their reason . Bear with me ; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar , And I must pause till it come back to ...
... cause : What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment ; thou are fled to brutish beasts , And men have lost their reason . Bear with me ; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar , And I must pause till it come back to ...
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The World's Great Speeches Lewis Copeland,Lawrence W. Lamm,Stephen J. McKenna Previsualització limitada - 1999 |
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