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In issuing this edition of Wendell Phillips's work , it seems desirable to underscore what is spelled out in the following Introduction , and elsewhere : the special nature of Phillips's writing . It is literature , pre- cisely as is ...
In issuing this edition of Wendell Phillips's work , it seems desirable to underscore what is spelled out in the following Introduction , and elsewhere : the special nature of Phillips's writing . It is literature , pre- cisely as is ...
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Wendell Phillips Louis Filler. the national tradition , was grand rather than creative , a monu- ment rather than a leader . Then there was that shining light of American oratory , Edward Everett , whom his countrymen show- ered with ...
Wendell Phillips Louis Filler. the national tradition , was grand rather than creative , a monu- ment rather than a leader . Then there was that shining light of American oratory , Edward Everett , whom his countrymen show- ered with ...
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PRAISE FROM CRITICS AND LIBRARIANS : These eighteen speeches of Phillips range in time from 1837 to 1881 , for Phillips was one of the few anti - slavery men who did not abruptly retire with the Emancipation Proclamation ; instead , his ...
PRAISE FROM CRITICS AND LIBRARIANS : These eighteen speeches of Phillips range in time from 1837 to 1881 , for Phillips was one of the few anti - slavery men who did not abruptly retire with the Emancipation Proclamation ; instead , his ...
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