Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in HistoryWilliam Safire Rosetta Books, 2014 M04 22 - 1148 páginas From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, this collection of speeches is “the most valuable kind of book, the kind that benefits mind and heart” (Peggy Noonan). This third edition of the bestselling collection of classic and modern oratory offers numerous examples of the greatest speeches ever delivered—from the ancient world to the modern. Speeches in Lend Me Your Ears span a broad stretch of history, from Gen. George Patton inspiring Allied troops on the eve of D-Day to Pericles’s impassioned eulogy for fallen Greek soldiers during the Peloponnesian War; and from Jesus of Nazareth’s greatest sermons to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s fiery speech in response to the Bush vs. Gore decision that changed the landscape of American politics in our time. Editor William Safire has collected a diverse range of speeches from both ancient and modern times, from people of many different backgrounds and political affiliations, and from people on both sides of history’s greatest battles and events. This book provides a wealth of valuable examples of great oratory for writers, speakers, and history aficionados. |
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... hope ; what their eyes showed plainly must be done they trusted their own valor to accomplish , thinking it more glorious to defend themselves and die in the attempt than to yield and live . From the reproach of cowardice , indeed ...
... hope ; what their eyes showed plainly must be done they trusted their own valor to accomplish , thinking it more glorious to defend themselves and die in the attempt than to yield and live . From the reproach of cowardice , indeed ...
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... hope . For this reason , the parents of those who are now gone , whoever of them may be attending here , I do not bewail — I shall rather comfort .... I know it in truth a difficult task to fix comfort in those breasts which will have ...
... hope . For this reason , the parents of those who are now gone , whoever of them may be attending here , I do not bewail — I shall rather comfort .... I know it in truth a difficult task to fix comfort in those breasts which will have ...
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... hope. I anticipate the day when to command respect in the remotest regions it will be sufficient to say, “I am an American.” Our flag shall then wave in glory over the ocean and our commerce feel no restraint but what our own government ...
... hope. I anticipate the day when to command respect in the remotest regions it will be sufficient to say, “I am an American.” Our flag shall then wave in glory over the ocean and our commerce feel no restraint but what our own government ...
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... hope that the growing influence of enlightened sentiments will promote the permanent peace of the world . Wars , to maintain family alliances , to uphold or to cast down dynasties , to regulate successions to thrones , which have ...
... hope that the growing influence of enlightened sentiments will promote the permanent peace of the world . Wars , to maintain family alliances , to uphold or to cast down dynasties , to regulate successions to thrones , which have ...
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... hope when hope becomes forlorn. Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination, nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you all that they mean. The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a ...
... hope when hope becomes forlorn. Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination, nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you all that they mean. The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a ...
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