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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Page 167
... mind , no man could have gone before the establishments of the time he lived in , how could our establishment , by reiterated changes , have become what it is ? If no man could have awakened the public mind to errors and abuses in our ...
... mind , no man could have gone before the establishments of the time he lived in , how could our establishment , by reiterated changes , have become what it is ? If no man could have awakened the public mind to errors and abuses in our ...
Page 243
... mind . It is the power which raises man above the brute - which distinguishes his faculties from mere sagacity , which he holds in common with inferior animals . It is this power which has raised the astronomer from being a mere gazer ...
... mind . It is the power which raises man above the brute - which distinguishes his faculties from mere sagacity , which he holds in common with inferior animals . It is this power which has raised the astronomer from being a mere gazer ...
Page 333
... mind ; and however little our feeble vision may be able to discern the means by which God will provide for its ... minds - not in instructed minds , but in those which are ill - instructed or partially instructed , which have a large ...
... mind ; and however little our feeble vision may be able to discern the means by which God will provide for its ... minds - not in instructed minds , but in those which are ill - instructed or partially instructed , which have a large ...
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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