Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 812
... human energy finds full and free expression in the literature of the youth of races , and is the special and prime quality of literature at that stage of development . As the man is born first in the boy's temper and spirit and ideals ...
... human energy finds full and free expression in the literature of the youth of races , and is the special and prime quality of literature at that stage of development . As the man is born first in the boy's temper and spirit and ideals ...
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... human speech ; it lies on his work as it lies on the fields , because the creative spirit has passed that way . It came again and again to Wordsworth during fifteen marvelous years ; and when it passed it left him cold and mechanical ...
... human speech ; it lies on his work as it lies on the fields , because the creative spirit has passed that way . It came again and again to Wordsworth during fifteen marvelous years ; and when it passed it left him cold and mechanical ...
Page 840
... human in- telligence and energy , developed by civil and spiritual freedom , to turn sterile rocks and pestilential marshes into cities and gardens . Enlightened as your founder was , he little knew that he was himself a chief agent in ...
... human in- telligence and energy , developed by civil and spiritual freedom , to turn sterile rocks and pestilential marshes into cities and gardens . Enlightened as your founder was , he little knew that he was himself a chief agent in ...
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... human laws . I have now given utterance to a part , and to a part only , of the recollections and anticipations of which , on this solemn occasion , my mind is full . I again thank you for the honor which you have bestowed on me ; and I ...
... human laws . I have now given utterance to a part , and to a part only , of the recollections and anticipations of which , on this solemn occasion , my mind is full . I again thank you for the honor which you have bestowed on me ; and I ...
Page 851
... human race . So that it does seem to me that every time we erect a new monu- ment to the memory of the Union Soldiers and Sailors , we are cementing the very foundations of the Government itself . We are doing that which will strengthen ...
... human race . So that it does seem to me that every time we erect a new monu- ment to the memory of the Union Soldiers and Sailors , we are cementing the very foundations of the Government itself . We are doing that which will strengthen ...
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