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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Pàgina 11
... question them , would be an inconceivable happiness . Surely for that the judges there do not condemn to death ; for in other respects those who live there are more happy than those that are here , and are henceforth immortal , if at ...
... question them , would be an inconceivable happiness . Surely for that the judges there do not condemn to death ; for in other respects those who live there are more happy than those that are here , and are henceforth immortal , if at ...
Pàgina 17
... questions , that together with your staff and ticket the spirit of the commonwealth is delivered to you . it ... question of equal terms , first I say you are ignorant that of those galleys formerly which defended Greece , being ...
... questions , that together with your staff and ticket the spirit of the commonwealth is delivered to you . it ... question of equal terms , first I say you are ignorant that of those galleys formerly which defended Greece , being ...
Pàgina 45
... us had ventured to hope for , which beyond all question none of us were ac- quainted with , of raising an invincible army of his father's soldiers , and so hindering the frenzy of Antonius , spurred on as Greece and Rome 45.
... us had ventured to hope for , which beyond all question none of us were ac- quainted with , of raising an invincible army of his father's soldiers , and so hindering the frenzy of Antonius , spurred on as Greece and Rome 45.
Pàgina 55
... question , however , at present under discussion , is not whether we live in a good or bad state of morals ; nor how great , or how splendid , the empire of the Roman people is ; but whether these things around us , of whatever value ...
... question , however , at present under discussion , is not whether we live in a good or bad state of morals ; nor how great , or how splendid , the empire of the Roman people is ; but whether these things around us , of whatever value ...
Pàgina 76
... question the life of the monarch ; and in all Europe , by painting the situation of a free king in false colors , as that of a king captive and persecuted ; and in depicting this august Assembly as an assembly of factionists ? Yes , the ...
... question the life of the monarch ; and in all Europe , by painting the situation of a free king in false colors , as that of a king captive and persecuted ; and in depicting this august Assembly as an assembly of factionists ? Yes , the ...
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