Modern Eloquence, Volume 12Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1903 |
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Page 464
... Europe and the Southern section , in consequence of the advantages derived from the causes assigned . If they had not existed . -if the South had retained all the capital which has been extracted from her by the fiscal action of the ...
... Europe and the Southern section , in consequence of the advantages derived from the causes assigned . If they had not existed . -if the South had retained all the capital which has been extracted from her by the fiscal action of the ...
Page 496
... Europe , while to the world and to posterity , the events which have recently taken place are matter of unbounded and universal joy , there is no collection of indi- viduals who are better entitled than the company now assembled in this ...
... Europe , while to the world and to posterity , the events which have recently taken place are matter of unbounded and universal joy , there is no collection of indi- viduals who are better entitled than the company now assembled in this ...
Page 497
... Europe still trembling in the scale , I should not have hesitated now , as I did not hesitate then , to declare my decided and unalter- able opinion , that perseverance , under whatever difficulties , under whatever privations ...
... Europe still trembling in the scale , I should not have hesitated now , as I did not hesitate then , to declare my decided and unalter- able opinion , that perseverance , under whatever difficulties , under whatever privations ...
Page 498
... Europe to one point , and leading them to decisive victory . If such a picture were merely the bright vision of specu- lative philosophy , if it were presented to us in the page of the history of ancient times , it would stir and warm ...
... Europe to one point , and leading them to decisive victory . If such a picture were merely the bright vision of specu- lative philosophy , if it were presented to us in the page of the history of ancient times , it would stir and warm ...
Page 500
... Europe ? We are the best judges of ourselves — what change has taken place here ? Is the constitution other than it ... Europe has been brought down . What is the name of that glori- ous republic , to which the gratitude of Europe is ...
... Europe ? We are the best judges of ourselves — what change has taken place here ? Is the constitution other than it ... Europe has been brought down . What is the name of that glori- ous republic , to which the gratitude of Europe is ...
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