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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... heart , therefore my hand shall be punished ; for if I may come to the fire it shall be first burned . And as for the Pope , I refuse him as Christ's enemy and Anti - christ with all his false doctrine . As the fire was put to him ...
... heart , therefore my hand shall be punished ; for if I may come to the fire it shall be first burned . And as for the Pope , I refuse him as Christ's enemy and Anti - christ with all his false doctrine . As the fire was put to him ...
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... heart of every Christian - and goes , I believe , to the heart of many a man professing religion who is not a Christian - ecrasez l'infame . Voltaire was a believer in God ; he would not have had the slightest difficulty in taking the ...
... heart of every Christian - and goes , I believe , to the heart of many a man professing religion who is not a Christian - ecrasez l'infame . Voltaire was a believer in God ; he would not have had the slightest difficulty in taking the ...
Page 371
... heart . What he told me before , I have it in my heart . I am tired of fighting . Our chiefs are killed ; Looking- Glass is dead , Ta - Hool - Hool - Shute is dead . The old men are all dead . It is the young men who say yes or no . He ...
... heart . What he told me before , I have it in my heart . I am tired of fighting . Our chiefs are killed ; Looking- Glass is dead , Ta - Hool - Hool - Shute is dead . The old men are all dead . It is the young men who say yes or no . He ...
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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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