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Page 410
The writings of a more popular , if less able , man must take precedence of
Gardiner's . Lecky comes the nearest to realizing the true all - round history . His "
History of England in the Eighteenth Century ” is in parts exceedingly eloquent ...
The writings of a more popular , if less able , man must take precedence of
Gardiner's . Lecky comes the nearest to realizing the true all - round history . His "
History of England in the Eighteenth Century ” is in parts exceedingly eloquent ...
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... power of expression in speech and writing , whence has arisen an opinion that
liberal education must be less useful to the man of business than to the lawyer ,
or minister , because the business man has less need than they of this power .
... power of expression in speech and writing , whence has arisen an opinion that
liberal education must be less useful to the man of business than to the lawyer ,
or minister , because the business man has less need than they of this power .
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All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being , -
ripened ; yes , and are content to be less , so that may attain to its full stature .
What a testimony , full of grandeur , full of pity , is borne to the demands of his
own ...
All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being , -
ripened ; yes , and are content to be less , so that may attain to its full stature .
What a testimony , full of grandeur , full of pity , is borne to the demands of his
own ...
Page 436
In contrast with their writing , the style of Pope , of Johnson , of Gibbon , looks
cold and pedantic . This writing is blood - warm . Man is surprised to find that
things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote . The near
explains ...
In contrast with their writing , the style of Pope , of Johnson , of Gibbon , looks
cold and pedantic . This writing is blood - warm . Man is surprised to find that
things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote . The near
explains ...
Page 461
You can neither wear it , nor burn it as fuel , nor build a house with it ; it is really
useless till you exchange it for consumable , perishable goods ; and the more
plentiful it is the less its exchangeable value . Far different the case with our
Atlantic ...
You can neither wear it , nor burn it as fuel , nor build a house with it ; it is really
useless till you exchange it for consumable , perishable goods ; and the more
plentiful it is the less its exchangeable value . Far different the case with our
Atlantic ...
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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.
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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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