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 8
... evil among men . I have paid the required tribute , in obedience to the law , making use of such fitting words as I had . The tribute of deeds has been paid in part ; for the dead have been honourably interred , and it remains only that ...
... evil among men . I have paid the required tribute , in obedience to the law , making use of such fitting words as I had . The tribute of deeds has been paid in part ; for the dead have been honourably interred , and it remains only that ...
Page 53
... evil constitution , or evil diet , or any other accident ; such causes , therefore , work with more vigour and efficacy than those which are particular and inferior . Secondly , in such diseases there is a communicative quality ...
... evil constitution , or evil diet , or any other accident ; such causes , therefore , work with more vigour and efficacy than those which are particular and inferior . Secondly , in such diseases there is a communicative quality ...
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... evil is indeed a subject beyond the reach of human understandings ; and the permission of it by the Supreme Being is a subject into which it belongs not to us to inquire . But where the evil in question is a moral evil which a man can ...
... evil is indeed a subject beyond the reach of human understandings ; and the permission of it by the Supreme Being is a subject into which it belongs not to us to inquire . But where the evil in question is a moral evil which a man can ...
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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