The World's Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) EditionLewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna 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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... feel grateful , even when they receive benefits [ from them ] , so undying is the anger they feel toward them . And our fathers condemned many to death for favoring the Medes ; and even at the present day , in their public assemblies ...
... feel grateful , even when they receive benefits [ from them ] , so undying is the anger they feel toward them . And our fathers condemned many to death for favoring the Medes ; and even at the present day , in their public assemblies ...
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... feel differently . For having to order the funeral banquet ( according to custom ) at the house of the nearest relative to the deceased , they ordered it at mine . And with reason ; because , though each to his own was nearer of kin ...
... feel differently . For having to order the funeral banquet ( according to custom ) at the house of the nearest relative to the deceased , they ordered it at mine . And with reason ; because , though each to his own was nearer of kin ...
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... feel some effects of your resentment ( if you have any favorable opportunity ) unless he prevent you by his attack . Hence is his vigilance awakened ; his arm raised against the state ; he courts some of the Thebans , and such of the ...
... feel some effects of your resentment ( if you have any favorable opportunity ) unless he prevent you by his attack . Hence is his vigilance awakened ; his arm raised against the state ; he courts some of the Thebans , and such of the ...
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... feel that your plans are detected ? Do you not see that your conspiracy is already arrested and rendered powerless by the knowl- edge which everyone here possesses of it ? What is there that you did last night , what the night before ...
... feel that your plans are detected ? Do you not see that your conspiracy is already arrested and rendered powerless by the knowl- edge which everyone here possesses of it ? What is there that you did last night , what the night before ...
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... feel , but by pity , nothing of which is due to you . You came a little while ago into the senate : in so numerous an assembly , who of so many friends . and connections of yours saluted you ? If this in the memory of man never happened ...
... feel , but by pity , nothing of which is due to you . You came a little while ago into the senate : in so numerous an assembly , who of so many friends . and connections of yours saluted you ? If this in the memory of man never happened ...
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