Modern Eloquence, Volume 15Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh University Society, 1903 |
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Page 1746
... character freed from suspicion , and his future left open before him with all its hopes of honors , station , and dignity . Melvill The Orator's First Step in His Art . - The beginning of the art of oratory is to acquire a habit of easy ...
... character freed from suspicion , and his future left open before him with all its hopes of honors , station , and dignity . Melvill The Orator's First Step in His Art . - The beginning of the art of oratory is to acquire a habit of easy ...
Page 1760
... character . Above all , they have recognized in practical form the fundamental law of success in American life - the law of worthy work , the law of high , resolute endeavor . We have but little room among our people for the timid , the ...
... character . Above all , they have recognized in practical form the fundamental law of success in American life - the law of worthy work , the law of high , resolute endeavor . We have but little room among our people for the timid , the ...
Page 1761
... character ; that is , the sum of his common sense , his courage , his virile energy and capacity . Nothing can take the place of this individual factor . I do not for a moment mean that much cannot be done to supplement it . Besides ...
... character ; that is , the sum of his common sense , his courage , his virile energy and capacity . Nothing can take the place of this individual factor . I do not for a moment mean that much cannot be done to supplement it . Besides ...
Page 1771
... character . Character is in the long run the decisive factor in the life of individuals and of nations alike . Sometimes , in rightly putting the stress that we do upon intelligence , we forget the fact that there is something that ...
... character . Character is in the long run the decisive factor in the life of individuals and of nations alike . Sometimes , in rightly putting the stress that we do upon intelligence , we forget the fact that there is something that ...
Page 1775
... character . The Bible does not teach us to shirk difficulties , but to overcome them . That is a lesson that each one of us who has children is bound in honor to teach these children if he or she expects to see them become fitted to ...
... character . The Bible does not teach us to shirk difficulties , but to overcome them . That is a lesson that each one of us who has children is bound in honor to teach these children if he or she expects to see them become fitted to ...
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