Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 822
... 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 ...
Page 826
... land " was a spiritual event of high sig- nificance . That men do not live by bread alone is the common message of religion and of art . That message was delivered by Poe with marvelous distinctness of speech . That he knew what he ...
... land " was a spiritual event of high sig- nificance . That men do not live by bread alone is the common message of religion and of art . That message was delivered by Poe with marvelous distinctness of speech . That he knew what he ...
Page 839
... lands of which in his days no geog- rapher had ever heard , then a wild , a poor , a half bar- barous tract , lying on the utmost verge of the known world . He gave his sanction to the plan of establishing a University at Glasgow , and ...
... lands of which in his days no geog- rapher had ever heard , then a wild , a poor , a half bar- barous tract , lying on the utmost verge of the known world . He gave his sanction to the plan of establishing a University at Glasgow , and ...
Page 840
... land of beggars , and can change the plain of Enna into a desert . Nor is it beyond the power of human in- telligence and energy , developed by civil and spiritual freedom , to turn sterile rocks and pestilential marshes into cities and ...
... land of beggars , and can change the plain of Enna into a desert . Nor is it beyond the power of human in- telligence and energy , developed by civil and spiritual freedom , to turn sterile rocks and pestilential marshes into cities and ...
Page 841
... land . In truth , minds daily nourished with the best litera- ture of Greece and Rome necessarily grew too strong to be trammeled by the cobwebs of the scholastic divinity ; and the influence of such minds was now rapidly felt by the ...
... land . In truth , minds daily nourished with the best litera- ture of Greece and Rome necessarily grew too strong to be trammeled by the cobwebs of the scholastic divinity ; and the influence of such minds was now rapidly felt by the ...
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