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Page 403
I have seen in use on the western bays of Ireland the same little boat , there
called not a coracle , but a curraghthe original form of the word , no doubt . It was
usually occupied by a priest being rowed from island to island to hear
confessions .
I have seen in use on the western bays of Ireland the same little boat , there
called not a coracle , but a curraghthe original form of the word , no doubt . It was
usually occupied by a priest being rowed from island to island to hear
confessions .
Page 408
A few years after the French , and with a French impulse no doubt , Macaulay
began to write . His style was brilliant , balanced , antithetical . Shall we say it was
too antithetical ? Let us remember that he wrote in the first half of the Nineteenth ...
A few years after the French , and with a French impulse no doubt , Macaulay
began to write . His style was brilliant , balanced , antithetical . Shall we say it was
too antithetical ? Let us remember that he wrote in the first half of the Nineteenth ...
Page 412
I do not say that the “ drum and trumpet history ” will have gone out , but when the
American Historical Association shall assemble in the closing week a hundred
years hence , there will be , do not doubt it , gifted writers of the history of the ...
I do not say that the “ drum and trumpet history ” will have gone out , but when the
American Historical Association shall assemble in the closing week a hundred
years hence , there will be , do not doubt it , gifted writers of the history of the ...
Page 413
Nobody doubts that primary and grammar - school training are useful to
everybody ; or that high - school training is advantageous for a clerk , salesman ,
commercial traveler , or skilled workman ; or that technical or scientific school
training is ...
Nobody doubts that primary and grammar - school training are useful to
everybody ; or that high - school training is advantageous for a clerk , salesman ,
commercial traveler , or skilled workman ; or that technical or scientific school
training is ...
Page 414
With this understanding of what we mean by education on the one hand and
business on the other , let us see if there can be any doubt as to the nature of the
relations between them . The business man in large affairs requires keen ...
With this understanding of what we mean by education on the one hand and
business on the other , let us see if there can be any doubt as to the nature of the
relations between them . The business man in large affairs requires keen ...
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| Title | Modern Eloquence: Occasional addresses Volume 9 of Modern Eloquence, Thomas Brackett Reed |
| Contributors | Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh |
| Publisher | J. D. Morris and Company, 1900 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 9 Nov 2007 |
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