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id: 21805
author: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)
title: Day of Infamy Speech: Given before the US Congress December 8 1941
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words: 518
sentence: 26
flesch: 61
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summary:
  Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.


id: 18795
author: Bensel, J. A. (John Anderson)
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words: 2249
sentence: 63
flesch: 51
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title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Address at the 42d Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, June 21st, 1910, Paper No. 1178

summary:
  We have a degree of civil engineer, regarded in its narrowest sense, of mining engineer, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and by necessity it would seem as if we should shortly add some particular title to designate the engineer who flies. The Society itself has adopted very broad lines in admission to membership, classing as civil engineers all who are properly such; and there is good reason for the serious consideration of the term at this time, as we cannot fail to recognize a tendency in State and other governments to legislate as to the right to practice engineering.


id: 18188
author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
title: Homer and Classical Philology
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words: 6686
sentence: 188
flesch: 47
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summary:
  There is no more dangerous assumption in modern æsthetics than that of _popular poetry_ and _individual poetry_, or, as it is usually called, _artistic poetry_. It was none other than Goethe who, in early life a supporter of Wolf's theories regarding Homer, recanted in the verses-- With subtle wit you took away Our former adoration:


id: 29343
author: Wilson, J. M. (James Maurice)
title: Three Addresses to Girls at School
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words: 11710
sentence: 475
flesch: 67
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summary:
  And you know that this enlarges and draws something out of your nature that would never have been suspected had it not been for school life. But when school life ends, what will become of this discovery that you have made?


id: 4052
author: Johnson, Richard
title: Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies, established in New South Wales And Norfolk Island
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words: 12798
sentence: 644
flesch: 77
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summary:
  If, in direct opposition to this plain, precept, you will work and labour, as on other days, what ground can you have to expect that God will bless and prosper your undertakings? My times are in the hand of God.


id: 39808
author: Morgan, Godfrey Charles
title: Wit and Wisdom of Lord Tredegar
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words: 27409
sentence: 1578
flesch: 79
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summary:
  In the old Town Hall of Newport many great celebrities have received testimonials, compliments and honours--warriors, church dignitaries, financiers and great politicians; but I do not think any circumstance like the present one has arisen before, and there could not be a more interesting ceremony than that which we are about to perform. England is like old Tredegar House, and you will find that the customs now prevailing have been in vogue for over 500 years.


id: 18323
author: Kleiser, Grenville
title: Model Speeches for Practise
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words: 29572
sentence: 1126
flesch: 65
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summary:
  To us General Sherman was not a great man like other great men, honored and revered at a distance. The elder among us have lived in the lifetime of many great men who have passed to their rest--the younger have heard them familiarly spoken of and still have their works in their hands as I trust they will continue to be in the hands of all generations.


id: 7427
author: Pittenger, William
title: Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way
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words: 31755
sentence: 1730
flesch: 77
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summary:
  The following speech and response for a wooden (fifth) wedding anniversary is taken from a volume of ready made speeches. Good speakers are secured in advance.


id: 20171
author: Taylor, Robt. L. (Robert Love)
title: Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales "The fiddle and the bow," "The paradise of fools," "Visions and dreams"
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words: 30545
sentence: 1439
flesch: 80
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summary:
  I saw an aged mother with her white locks and wrinkled face, swoon at the Governor's feet; I saw old men tottering on the staff, with broken hearts and tear stained faces, and heard them plead for their wayward boys. The enchanted violin broke out in tumult, and through the rifted shadows in my dream I thought I saw old ocean lashed to fury.


id: 16858
author: Bain, George Washington
title: Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures
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words: 69269
sentence: 3005
flesch: 78
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summary:
  I presume when a speaker has prepared himself he is going to get about the best things out of his subject, and will put them in a way to take hold and benefit young men. Young man, if you want the college girl you must get up in good qualities to where she will see you without looking down.


id: 20768
author: James, William
title: Memories and Studies
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words: 66483
sentence: 2685
flesch: 63
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summary:
  At San Francisco the need will continue to be awful, and there will doubtless be a crop of nervous wrecks before the weeks and months are over, but meanwhile the commonest men, simply because they _are_ men, will go on, singly and collectively, showing this admirable fortitude of temper. In rough terms, we may say that a man who energizes below his normal maximum fails by just so much to profit by his chance at life; and that a nation filled with such men is inferior to a nation run at higher pressure.


id: 7212
author: Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of
title: Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses
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words: 73154
sentence: 2599
flesch: 68
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summary:
  Her fountains thrown From alps unto three oceans, to all men Shall vaunt her loveliness e'en now; and when, Each little hamlet to a city grown, And numberless as blades of prairie grass, Or the thick leaves in distant forest bower, Great peoples hear the giant currents pass, Still shall the waters, bringing wealth and power, Speak the loved name,--the land of silver springs-- Worthy the daughter of our English kings. and these cries are no mere words of the lips, but come from the heart of great peoples.


id: 14062
author: Wilde, Oscar
title: Miscellanies
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words: 90858
sentence: 3851
flesch: 69
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summary:
  So do not mind what art Philadelphia or New York is having, but make by the hands of your own citizens beautiful art for the joy of your own citizens, for you have here the primary elements of a great artistic movement. The art which has fulfilled the conditions of beauty has fulfilled all conditions: it is for the critic to teach the people how to find in the calm of such art the highest expression of their own most stormy passions.


id: 18422
title: Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
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words: 158078
sentence: 6481
flesch: 69
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summary:
  Great man he was, hard, stern, and intolerant. Where is there such a galaxy of great men known to history?


id: 18823
title: Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O
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words: 158363
sentence: 6242
flesch: 68
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summary:
  On my return from Europe, when I first visited it, upon a public errand, while President Lincoln was at the height of his fame from the assured although not completed success and triumph in the war, and from the great transaction that had made him one of the famous men for all ages--the emancipation of the slaves--I had occasion, in a friendly meeting with him, to express a hope that he would find it in his power after the cares of State were laid aside to visit Europe and see the statesmen and great men there whose mouths were full of plaudits for his assured accomplished fame. The elder among us have lived in the lifetime of many great men who have passed to their rest--the younger have heard them familiarly spoken of and still have their works in their hands as I trust they will continue to be in the hands of all generations.


id: 3286
author: Burke, Edmund
title: Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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words: 162374
sentence: 6025
flesch: 60
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summary:
  Great men are the guide-posts and land-marks in the state. Certain it is, that the influence of most things on our passions is not so much from the things themselves, as from our opinions concerning them; and these again depend very much on the opinions of other men, conveyable for the most part by words only.


id: 14182
title: The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
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words: 165685
sentence: 5778
flesch: 62
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summary:
  There are many wise and prudent men amongst us, who think it not worth their while to open their mouths; there are others, who can speak very well, and to good purpose, who shelter themselves under the shameful cloak of silence, from a fear of the frowns of great men and parties. To expatiate on the value of public faith may pass with some men for declamation--to such men I have nothing to say.


# ent

id: 7212
sid: 1317
eid: 9
type: ORG
entity:
  transmettre aux différentes institutions et sociétés que vous représentez ma reconnaissance de la cordiale et bienveillante réception qui nous a été


id: 7212
sid: 1328
eid: 8
type: ORG
entity:
  créées par votre générosité, et encouragées par l'esprit sympathique de votre dernier gouverneurgénéral


id: 7212
sid: 1999
eid: 1
type: ORG
entity:
  permettez-moi de vous remercier aussi de tout mon coeur de ce que vous avez dit à l'égard de la princesse


