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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... hope of a change for the better has less reason to throw away his life than the prosperous who , if he survive , is always liable to a change for the worse , and to whom any accidental fall makes the most serious difference . To a man ...
... hope of a change for the better has less reason to throw away his life than the prosperous who , if he survive , is always liable to a change for the worse , and to whom any accidental fall makes the most serious difference . To a man ...
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... hope in God that God will clear me of it , I will not , I am in charity ; God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parliament ; there is no necessity of either , I hope they are free of this guilt , for I do believe that ...
... hope in God that God will clear me of it , I will not , I am in charity ; God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parliament ; there is no necessity of either , I hope they are free of this guilt , for I do believe that ...
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... hope of peace and reconcilia- tion . There is no longer any room for hope . If we wish to be free – if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending - if we mean not basely to ...
... hope of peace and reconcilia- tion . There is no longer any room for hope . If we wish to be free – if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending - if we mean not basely to ...
Contents
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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