Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Volume 22 |
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Page 9414
He defines it as “ the power of forming ideal pictures ; " “ the power of
representing absent things to ourselves and to others . " Such is the power which
I am going to ask you , confidently , to cultivate in your schools , by your libraries
at home ...
He defines it as “ the power of forming ideal pictures ; " “ the power of
representing absent things to ourselves and to others . " Such is the power which
I am going to ask you , confidently , to cultivate in your schools , by your libraries
at home ...
Page 9416
And over what worlds will not fancy enable you to roam the world of the past ,
ideal worlds , and other worlds beyond your sight , probably brighter worlds ,
possibly more interesting worlds than the narrow world in which most of us are ...
And over what worlds will not fancy enable you to roam the world of the past ,
ideal worlds , and other worlds beyond your sight , probably brighter worlds ,
possibly more interesting worlds than the narrow world in which most of us are ...
Page 9464
... -Shakespeare , Bacon , Milton , Burke ; " and then in one of those dashing
outbursts of playful extravagance which were so characteristic of him , fearing
that Sumner in his proposed review might fail to do full justice to the great ideal of
both ...
... -Shakespeare , Bacon , Milton , Burke ; " and then in one of those dashing
outbursts of playful extravagance which were so characteristic of him , fearing
that Sumner in his proposed review might fail to do full justice to the great ideal of
both ...
Page 9465
Would that he had realized his constant dream of an ideal cottage in the old
walnut grove in Essex , where he might spend whole summers with his books ,
his children , and his thoughts . His splendid and blazing intellect , fed and
enriched by ...
Would that he had realized his constant dream of an ideal cottage in the old
walnut grove in Essex , where he might spend whole summers with his books ,
his children , and his thoughts . His splendid and blazing intellect , fed and
enriched by ...
Page 9484
We of the nineteenth century need an ideal as they needed it then , when Martin
Luther kindled the fires of the glorious Reformation ; that great and extraordinary
man , the successor of Armenius , educated , as he was , in a monastery , and so
...
We of the nineteenth century need an ideal as they needed it then , when Martin
Luther kindled the fires of the glorious Reformation ; that great and extraordinary
man , the successor of Armenius , educated , as he was , in a monastery , and so
...
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