Modern Eloquence, Volume 15Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh University Society, 1903 |
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Page 1748
... give you full credit for your elegant diction , well - turned periods , and Attic wit ; but wit is often- times false , though it may appear brilliant ; which is exactly the case of your whole performance . Junius . The Human Face ...
... give you full credit for your elegant diction , well - turned periods , and Attic wit ; but wit is often- times false , though it may appear brilliant ; which is exactly the case of your whole performance . Junius . The Human Face ...
Page 1762
... give to the thrifty , the far - seeing , and the hard - working a chance to exercise to the best advantage their special and peculiar abilities . No hard - and - fast rule can be laid down as to where our legislation shall stop in ...
... give to the thrifty , the far - seeing , and the hard - working a chance to exercise to the best advantage their special and peculiar abilities . No hard - and - fast rule can be laid down as to where our legislation shall stop in ...
Page 1766
... give every advantage to the skill , energy , and intelligence of our farmers , merchants , manu- facturers , and wage - workers ; and yet we must also remem- ber , in dealing with other nations , that benefits must be given where ...
... give every advantage to the skill , energy , and intelligence of our farmers , merchants , manu- facturers , and wage - workers ; and yet we must also remem- ber , in dealing with other nations , that benefits must be given where ...
Page 1773
... give instance after instance of the queer twists that the little minds give to what seem to us perfectly simple sentences . Now ON READING THE BIBLE 1773.
... give instance after instance of the queer twists that the little minds give to what seem to us perfectly simple sentences . Now ON READING THE BIBLE 1773.
Page 1781
... give definite control to some sovereign over the great corpora- tions , and which shall be followed , when once this power has been conferred , by a system giving to the government the full knowledge which is the essential for ...
... give definite control to some sovereign over the great corpora- tions , and which shall be followed , when once this power has been conferred , by a system giving to the government the full knowledge which is the essential for ...
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