Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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... cause of surprise or complaint , that the history [ of Thucydides ] tells us nothing of the literature , the art , or the social life under whose influences the author had grown up . " Among the illustrious con- temporaries , " says ...
... cause of surprise or complaint , that the history [ of Thucydides ] tells us nothing of the literature , the art , or the social life under whose influences the author had grown up . " Among the illustrious con- temporaries , " says ...
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... cause . I read it day after day and forgot it almost as fast as I read it . There was not a word about the people , their manners or customs . Even the manners and customs of the court of Portugal were entirely ignored . It was history ...
... cause . I read it day after day and forgot it almost as fast as I read it . There was not a word about the people , their manners or customs . Even the manners and customs of the court of Portugal were entirely ignored . It was history ...
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... caused by the abstraction of all time from their verses . There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise , when this poet , who lived in some past world , two or three hundred years ago , says that which lies close to my own soul ...
... caused by the abstraction of all time from their verses . There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise , when this poet , who lived in some past world , two or three hundred years ago , says that which lies close to my own soul ...
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... cause lurking , as always it does lurk , in these suburbs and extremities of nature ; let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law ; and the shop , the plough , and the ledger re- ferred ...
... cause lurking , as always it does lurk , in these suburbs and extremities of nature ; let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law ; and the shop , the plough , and the ledger re- ferred ...
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... cause they espoused was the same which strewed your streets with ashes , and drenched your hilltops with blood . And while Providence , in the aston- ishing circumstances of their departure , seems to have appointed that the ...
... cause they espoused was the same which strewed your streets with ashes , and drenched your hilltops with blood . And while Providence , in the aston- ishing circumstances of their departure , seems to have appointed that the ...
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Page 776 - 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 731 - Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition: but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it;' And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should...
Page 504 - In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard; and they were graciously answered. All of us, who were engaged in the struggle, must have observed frequent instances of a superintending Providence in our favor.
Page 775 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed very fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Page 776 - 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 729 - 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 726 - Good sir, why do you start ; and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair? — I' the name of truth, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner You greet with present grace, and great prediction...
Page 730 - Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Page 437 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit, not to be reckoned one character —- not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south?
Page 734 - 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.