Modern Eloquence, Volume 12Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1903 |
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Page 429
... feeling - in the whole melancholy his- tory of the race - where tears and grief , the hard seriousness of life and the terrible and speedy certainty of our common fate of suffering and of death , make somber the master - cord of ...
... feeling - in the whole melancholy his- tory of the race - where tears and grief , the hard seriousness of life and the terrible and speedy certainty of our common fate of suffering and of death , make somber the master - cord of ...
Page 437
... feeling and tendency of the masses . The profoundest feeling among the masses , the most influential element in their character , is the religious ele- ment . It is as instinctive and elemental as the law of self- preservation . It ...
... feeling and tendency of the masses . The profoundest feeling among the masses , the most influential element in their character , is the religious ele- ment . It is as instinctive and elemental as the law of self- preservation . It ...
Page 447
... feel- ing upon this subject - it is the only answer I can ever make to the thousand calumnies that have been poured upon me and mine , and upon the officers who worked with me for the good of our country . I desire now to say a single ...
... feel- ing upon this subject - it is the only answer I can ever make to the thousand calumnies that have been poured upon me and mine , and upon the officers who worked with me for the good of our country . I desire now to say a single ...
Page 448
... feel impatient ? The war of the Revolu- tion was seven years . Why should men be so anxious that nations should march faster than they are prepared to march -faster than the tread of nations has ever been in the provi- dence of God ...
... feel impatient ? The war of the Revolu- tion was seven years . Why should men be so anxious that nations should march faster than they are prepared to march -faster than the tread of nations has ever been in the provi- dence of God ...
Page 453
... feel any more troubled that a portion of the price goes to the West- ern farmer to enhance his gains instead of going into the coffers of a Jew banker in Wall Street . You will observe , my friends , that in the list of griev- ances ...
... feel any more troubled that a portion of the price goes to the West- ern farmer to enhance his gains instead of going into the coffers of a Jew banker in Wall Street . You will observe , my friends , that in the list of griev- ances ...
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