A treasury of the world's great speeches : each speech prefaced with its dramatic and biographical s...
A treasury of the world's great speeches : each speech prefaced with its dramatic and biographical setting and placed in its full historical perspective / selected and edited by Houston Peterson.
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Publisher
New York : Simon and Schuster, [1954]
Date
[1954]
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T0327395
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English
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856 p. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher
New York : Simon and Schuster, [1954]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[1954]
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Contains the full text of important speeches from ancient times through the Second World War. Moses, Cicero, and Julius Caesar are among the representatives of Hebrews, Greeks and Romans. Early Christianity is illustrated through the words of Jesus of Nazareth (the Sermon on the Mount) and Pope Urban II, calling for the first crusade. The period of...
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A treasury of the world's great speeches : each speech prefaced with its dramatic and biographical setting and placed in its full historical perspective / selected and edited by Houston Peterson.
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Transferred from: N808.85/10A.
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T0327395
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74VKwDd47Dbg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKwDd47Dbg
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991018229589702626
