Modern Eloquence, Volume 2Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... land's library I purchased among other books a little manuscript . It was a complete treatment of the private soldier's duty , written in what is called the secretary's hand . It is not legible except to those trained to read it ...
... land's library I purchased among other books a little manuscript . It was a complete treatment of the private soldier's duty , written in what is called the secretary's hand . It is not legible except to those trained to read it ...
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... land , " in the Eighteenth century , are very great books . Leave the American Revolution to be written by one who understands it and knows what it was . I remember the enjoyment with which I discovered that Hilliard had inserted here ...
... land , " in the Eighteenth century , are very great books . Leave the American Revolution to be written by one who understands it and knows what it was . I remember the enjoyment with which I discovered that Hilliard had inserted here ...
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... lands in a Western city , three days after his graduation , without a dollar , and without a friend in the city , and ten years afterwards he is the owner of the best establishment for printing books in that city . A young man six years ...
... lands in a Western city , three days after his graduation , without a dollar , and without a friend in the city , and ten years afterwards he is the owner of the best establishment for printing books in that city . A young man six years ...
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... lands , draws to a close . The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests . Events , actions arise , that must be sung , that will sing themselves . Who can doubt that ...
... lands , draws to a close . The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests . Events , actions arise , that must be sung , that will sing themselves . Who can doubt that ...
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... land . It was the custom of the primitive Romans to preserve in the halls of their houses the images of all the illustrious men whom their families had produced . These images are supposed to have consisted of a mask exactly repre ...
... land . It was the custom of the primitive Romans to preserve in the halls of their houses the images of all the illustrious men whom their families had produced . These images are supposed to have consisted of a mask exactly repre ...
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Page 772 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 725 - He's here in double trust ; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed : then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 772 - To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.
Page 502 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights, to illuminate our understandings...
Page 726 - O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife ! Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. Lady M. But in them nature's copy's not eterne. Macb. There's comfort yet ; they are assailable ; Then be thou jocund : ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Page 721 - I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature?
Page 758 - Gul in her bloom? Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 725 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come.
Page 581 - He finds his house in ruins, his farm devastated, his slaves free, his stock killed, his barns empty, his trade destroyed, his money worthless, his social system, feudal in its magnificence, swept away, his people without law or legal status, his comrades slain, and the burdens of others heavy on his shoulders. Crushed by defeat, his very traditions are gone...
Page 730 - For mine own good, All causes shall give way : I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.