Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page xvii
... believe that the word lecture implied . what its origin seems to require - that it should be read . The origin of such lectures delivered in different places by speakers other than the resident clergy seems to go back as far as the ...
... believe that the word lecture implied . what its origin seems to require - that it should be read . The origin of such lectures delivered in different places by speakers other than the resident clergy seems to go back as far as the ...
Page xx
... believe that in the English and American universities what were called lectures were generally discourses written out so that they could be read in the same form to other audiences . I think that when a man is said to have attended the ...
... believe that in the English and American universities what were called lectures were generally discourses written out so that they could be read in the same form to other audiences . I think that when a man is said to have attended the ...
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... believe in any such place . But that the sure tendency and upshot of things establishes that the service of the goddess Aselgeia is ruin , that her followers are marred and stunted by it and disqualified for the ideal society of the ...
... believe in any such place . But that the sure tendency and upshot of things establishes that the service of the goddess Aselgeia is ruin , that her followers are marred and stunted by it and disqualified for the ideal society of the ...
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... believe , and who say that moral causes govern the standing and the falling of States , will tell us that the failure to mind whatsoever things are elevated must im- pair with an inexorable fatality the life of a nation , just as the ...
... believe , and who say that moral causes govern the standing and the falling of States , will tell us that the failure to mind whatsoever things are elevated must im- pair with an inexorable fatality the life of a nation , just as the ...
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... believe in Nihilism in Russia . If I had been born and brought up there , and had felt the heel on my neck , I would have been a Nihilist . I am poor stuff to make an obedient slave out of ! Never- theless , they are like blind men ...
... believe in Nihilism in Russia . If I had been born and brought up there , and had felt the heel on my neck , I would have been a Nihilist . I am poor stuff to make an obedient slave out of ! Never- theless , they are like blind men ...
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