Modern Eloquence: A Library of the World's Best Spoken Thought, Volume 14Ashley Horace Thorndike Modern eloquence corporation, 1928 |
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... he proposed the following toast , which contains more wit than do most witty speeches : " Women , the better half of the Yankee world - at whose tender summons even the stern Pilgrims were ever ready to spring WIT , HUMOR AND ANECDOTE xix.
... he proposed the following toast , which contains more wit than do most witty speeches : " Women , the better half of the Yankee world - at whose tender summons even the stern Pilgrims were ever ready to spring WIT , HUMOR AND ANECDOTE xix.
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... better story - teller than former Lieutenant - Governor David A. Ball of Missouri ever stood before an American audience . In 1896 he was trying to persuade the Gold Democrats that notwithstanding the fact that they differed with the ...
... better story - teller than former Lieutenant - Governor David A. Ball of Missouri ever stood before an American audience . In 1896 he was trying to persuade the Gold Democrats that notwithstanding the fact that they differed with the ...
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... better . " A PERFECT SERMON The one perfect sermon I have had the fortune to hear was eloquent through its brevity . " The Lacedemonians do not ask ' How many are the enemy ? ' but ' Where are they ? ' ' -Aaron Davis . JUST SHOW ' EM ...
... better . " A PERFECT SERMON The one perfect sermon I have had the fortune to hear was eloquent through its brevity . " The Lacedemonians do not ask ' How many are the enemy ? ' but ' Where are they ? ' ' -Aaron Davis . JUST SHOW ' EM ...
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... BETTER On one occasion General R- was taken suddenly ill with the cramp colic , and it was feared he would die . He had quite a number of slaves , and among them was old Harry , a very pious old darky . The general requested that Harry ...
... BETTER On one occasion General R- was taken suddenly ill with the cramp colic , and it was feared he would die . He had quite a number of slaves , and among them was old Harry , a very pious old darky . The general requested that Harry ...
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... better than your father , because he is a bishop , " said one . That was too weighty a reason for the curate's little girl . But she quickly recovered and said : " Well , anyhow , we've got a hen in our yard which lays an egg every day ...
... better than your father , because he is a bishop , " said one . That was too weighty a reason for the curate's little girl . But she quickly recovered and said : " Well , anyhow , we've got a hen in our yard which lays an egg every day ...
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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.