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Pericles' funeral oration

Pericles praised Athenians who gave their lives for their city and urged survivors to equal their resolve.

A template for later speeches.

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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address followed the pattern of resolving that the dead shall not have died in vain.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 396–397

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