The Penguin Book of Historic SpeechesBrian MacArthur A companion volume to The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches, this collection of great oratory stretches across the history of powerful and moving, but most of all, memorable speeches, from classical times to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. |
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... mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending - if we mean not basely ... means which the God of nature hath placed in our power . Three millions of people , armed in the holy cause of ...
... mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending - if we mean not basely ... means which the God of nature hath placed in our power . Three millions of people , armed in the holy cause of ...
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... means of comfort , nor almost of subsistence to its own inhabitants ) new and unexampled means of annoyance and destruction against all the other powers of Europe . Its first fundamental principle was to bribe the poor against the rich ...
... means of comfort , nor almost of subsistence to its own inhabitants ) new and unexampled means of annoyance and destruction against all the other powers of Europe . Its first fundamental principle was to bribe the poor against the rich ...
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Brian MacArthur. ingenuity of man . It means , for that space , the continuous application of the discoveries of science to his comfort and convenience . It means the accumulation of capital , the elevation of labour , the establishment ...
Brian MacArthur. ingenuity of man . It means , for that space , the continuous application of the discoveries of science to his comfort and convenience . It means the accumulation of capital , the elevation of labour , the establishment ...
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Moses Thou shalt not c 1250 BC | 3 |
Jesus of Nazareth Blessed are the poor in spirit c 33 | 23 |
John Ball Cast off the yoke of bondage 1381 | 37 |
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