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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... studded with gems of historic fact , profound wisdom , and exalted vision . * PART IV of present edition PART II , last section of present edition LEWIS COPELAND A Contents PERICLES PART I Funeral Oration Socrates I Greece vi Introduction.
... studded with gems of historic fact , profound wisdom , and exalted vision . * PART IV of present edition PART II , last section of present edition LEWIS COPELAND A Contents PERICLES PART I Funeral Oration Socrates I Greece vi Introduction.
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... fact ? And just as you now , with one mind and one voice , affirm that you en- tertain no doubt , so did the senate just now decree that Decimus Brutus deserved excellently well of the republic , inasmuch as he was defending the ...
... fact ? And just as you now , with one mind and one voice , affirm that you en- tertain no doubt , so did the senate just now decree that Decimus Brutus deserved excellently well of the republic , inasmuch as he was defending the ...
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... fact that the charges which are laid against me , so far from proving that I was in collusion with the arch - conspirator concerned , would imply that my relations were of an entirely opposite character ; that in denouncing the ...
... fact that the charges which are laid against me , so far from proving that I was in collusion with the arch - conspirator concerned , would imply that my relations were of an entirely opposite character ; that in denouncing the ...
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... fact . After the old man , the young man . Three years later , in 1765 , at Abbeville , the day after a night of storm and high wind , there was found upon the pavement of a bridge an old crucifix of worm - eaten wood , which for three ...
... fact . After the old man , the young man . Three years later , in 1765 , at Abbeville , the day after a night of storm and high wind , there was found upon the pavement of a bridge an old crucifix of worm - eaten wood , which for three ...
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... fact , Austria kept her word ; you already know , and if you do not I can testify to the fact , that at the Congress of Paris no power showed more hostility to Russia or tried harder to aggravate the conditions of peace than Austria ...
... fact , Austria kept her word ; you already know , and if you do not I can testify to the fact , that at the Congress of Paris no power showed more hostility to Russia or tried harder to aggravate the conditions of peace than Austria ...
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