Modern Eloquence, Volume 15Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh University Society, 1903 |
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Page 1746
... indulge in flights of oratory , plucking flowers from the regions of fancy , drawing more largely upon imagination than upon sound logic and plain common sense . L. C. Judson . Tediousness . - The orator must never bore ; he vi ...
... indulge in flights of oratory , plucking flowers from the regions of fancy , drawing more largely upon imagination than upon sound logic and plain common sense . L. C. Judson . Tediousness . - The orator must never bore ; he vi ...
Page 1761
... 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 each of us working individually , all of ...
... 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 each of us working individually , all of ...
Page 1794
... common kind , short indeed in the lives of nations , but longer than the life of man , when we may well pause to take stock . Within six weeks we shall have closed the nineteenth century , and have entered on a new one for better or for ...
... common kind , short indeed in the lives of nations , but longer than the life of man , when we may well pause to take stock . Within six weeks we shall have closed the nineteenth century , and have entered on a new one for better or for ...
Page 1814
... common sense of the nation to take some more active steps . We have seen how his extreme sup- porters in that campaign have reproached him as he deserted their opinions and disappointed their ardent hopes . I think that he always felt ...
... common sense of the nation to take some more active steps . We have seen how his extreme sup- porters in that campaign have reproached him as he deserted their opinions and disappointed their ardent hopes . I think that he always felt ...
Page 1827
... advisers of the Crown . But the fallacy , the fundamental fallacy , of all the reasonings of ministerial arguers upon this point is that they ignore the fact that it is not a common TAMPERING WITH THE CONSTITUTION 1827.
... advisers of the Crown . But the fallacy , the fundamental fallacy , of all the reasonings of ministerial arguers upon this point is that they ignore the fact that it is not a common TAMPERING WITH THE CONSTITUTION 1827.
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