Modern Eloquence: A Library of the World's Best Spoken Thought, Volume 14Ashley Horace Thorndike Modern eloquence corporation, 1928 |
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... natural for jealous souls to belittle those qualities which they do not possess . It is a mean sort of egotism , a vainglorious pride , which is apt to have a sudden fall . As the non - humorous and unwitty constitute the overwhelm- ing ...
... natural for jealous souls to belittle those qualities which they do not possess . It is a mean sort of egotism , a vainglorious pride , which is apt to have a sudden fall . As the non - humorous and unwitty constitute the overwhelm- ing ...
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... NATURAL HOSTILITY TO THE TRUTH One day in the United States Senate cloakroom , Senator Daniel was reposing on a lounge , with his eyes half shut , when the famous Joe Blackburn , who loved a little fun , concluded he would make Senator ...
... NATURAL HOSTILITY TO THE TRUTH One day in the United States Senate cloakroom , Senator Daniel was reposing on a lounge , with his eyes half shut , when the famous Joe Blackburn , who loved a little fun , concluded he would make Senator ...
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... nature , to immolate himself on the altar of his country , Homer's touching picture of the last scene between the noble Hector and his weeping family rises before my imagination ; when I see him seated sorrowfully at a miserable repast ...
... nature , to immolate himself on the altar of his country , Homer's touching picture of the last scene between the noble Hector and his weeping family rises before my imagination ; when I see him seated sorrowfully at a miserable repast ...
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... nature of his case and he explained that he had had a fight and knocked another negro in the head with a singletree and that the justice of the peace had " found " him $ 5 , whereupon he had appealed to the circuit court . After he had ...
... nature of his case and he explained that he had had a fight and knocked another negro in the head with a singletree and that the justice of the peace had " found " him $ 5 , whereupon he had appealed to the circuit court . After he had ...
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... know the weakness of my nature- always open to the appeals of repentance or of grief ; and with such a touching letter and such recommendations , I could not resist . But any man who would go to Africa 74 LINCOLN STORIES.
... know the weakness of my nature- always open to the appeals of repentance or of grief ; and with such a touching letter and such recommendations , I could not resist . But any man who would go to Africa 74 LINCOLN STORIES.
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Popular passages
Page 278 - ... we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 344 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 354 - It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Page 362 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar - for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard! - May none those marks efface! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 429 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition , sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 431 - And only the Master shall praise us. and only the Master shall blame: And no one shall work for money. and no one shall work for fame. But each for the joy of the working. and each. in his separate star. Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!
Page 334 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it— the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his force dares not cross* the threshold of the ruined tenement...
Page 369 - Too old, by heaven : let still the woman take An elder than herself : so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart : For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.
Page 378 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can.
Page 311 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.