Modern Eloquence, Volume 12Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1903 |
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Page 427
... tion . But , above all , each of these model speeches which the world has thus far produced teaches . They instruct . And , in doing this , they assert . The men who spoke them did not weaken them by suggesting a doubt of what they had ...
... tion . But , above all , each of these model speeches which the world has thus far produced teaches . They instruct . And , in doing this , they assert . The men who spoke them did not weaken them by suggesting a doubt of what they had ...
Page 430
... tion and in a voice precisely as if he were talking to a friend . But he was as dramatic at his climax as Edwin Booth ever was in " Hamlet . His face paled , or seemed to pale ; his hands clenched with a desperate energy , and the whole ...
... tion and in a voice precisely as if he were talking to a friend . But he was as dramatic at his climax as Edwin Booth ever was in " Hamlet . His face paled , or seemed to pale ; his hands clenched with a desperate energy , and the whole ...
Page 435
... tion of it , and then prepare your speech . After this , read , read , read , comprehensively , omnivor- ously , in order to see whether your original solution was not exploded a hundred years ago - aye , or a thousand ; and also , to ...
... tion of it , and then prepare your speech . After this , read , read , read , comprehensively , omnivor- ously , in order to see whether your original solution was not exploded a hundred years ago - aye , or a thousand ; and also , to ...
Page 448
... 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 ? Nations in war have ever moved slowly . We ...
... 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 ? Nations in war have ever moved slowly . We ...
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... tion as a possible - aye , not only possible , but , unless this state of things has a remedy , a probable event ; for we must see to it that we protect ourselves and take a manly place among the nations of the earth . But I hear some ...
... tion as a possible - aye , not only possible , but , unless this state of things has a remedy , a probable event ; for we must see to it that we protect ourselves and take a manly place among the nations of the earth . But I hear some ...
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