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Excerpt from Wendell Phillips Orator and Agitator Wendell Phillips was so closely identified with the most important episode of American history in the last century that his life must be considered largely in connection with it and its consequences. Known as the anti-slavery agitation, it assumed as one of its early phases the demand for immediate and unconditional abolition. To this cause Phillips gave his best years as the preacher of a cru...

Excerpt from The History of Oratory From the Age of Pericles to the Present TimeF Oratory is what the ancients called it, The Art of Arts, it should have a history of its own, like the arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture, of music, poetry, and the drama. If, also, it is a science, as Aristotle and his successors have shown, its fundamental principles must have been derived from a series of experiments whose record becomes historical....

Excerpt from John Hay, Author and Statesman Who is not attracted by the intricacies of state craft, but who may be glad to know the main features of a life whose value to the nation and the world should be more widely understood and whose example in private and in public de serves study and imitation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book...

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Excerpt from John Hancock: The Picturesque Patriot John hancock's famous signature has made him more Widely known than most other and later signers of the Declaration of Independence. Yet less is commonly known about him than concern ing other prominent patriots of the Revolution. He was active and conspicuous in his time, but he left few materials for a biography, and these for the most part in remote hiding places. John Adams once remarked,...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...