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Unlike Emerson , he was also an agitator who made up speeches extemporaneously and which were as rounded and eloquent as his honed and practiced papers , and gave no impression of being improvised . This was true when , as a young man ...
Unlike Emerson , he was also an agitator who made up speeches extemporaneously and which were as rounded and eloquent as his honed and practiced papers , and gave no impression of being improvised . This was true when , as a young man ...
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I could not believe it to be true . Only two years have passed , and what was then deemed rant and fanaticism , by seven out of ten who heard it , has proved true . The theatre , bowing to its audience , has preached immediate ...
I could not believe it to be true . Only two years have passed , and what was then deemed rant and fanaticism , by seven out of ten who heard it , has proved true . The theatre , bowing to its audience , has preached immediate ...
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struggle to define and to arrange the true relations of capital and labor . Today one of your sons is born . He lies in his cradle as the child of a man without means , with a little education , and with less leisure .
struggle to define and to arrange the true relations of capital and labor . Today one of your sons is born . He lies in his cradle as the child of a man without means , with a little education , and with less leisure .
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| Title | Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom |
| Author | Wendell Phillips |
| Editor | Louis Filler |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Sep 2006 |
| ISBN | 0819127930, 9780819127938 |
| Length | 221 pages |
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