Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page xi
... better not use it in a sermon , even if he did have it . A sermon , the famous Dean seemed to think , was a means of permanent improvement of the human soul , and that , therefore , it was out of place in the pulpit to use what he calls ...
... better not use it in a sermon , even if he did have it . A sermon , the famous Dean seemed to think , was a means of permanent improvement of the human soul , and that , therefore , it was out of place in the pulpit to use what he calls ...
Page xxiii
... better than others , and it also proved if a man were lec- turing three or four times in a week and going from place to place , he could not do much else . The law of supply and demand established itself . It was whispered with more or ...
... better than others , and it also proved if a man were lec- turing three or four times in a week and going from place to place , he could not do much else . The law of supply and demand established itself . It was whispered with more or ...
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... better of it , one of the English crowd , who always like fair play , shouted , ' Hurrah for the gentleman ! ' Another voice supplemented the cry with , And hurrah for the little man that held his coat . ' [ Laughter . ] The friend who ...
... better of it , one of the English crowd , who always like fair play , shouted , ' Hurrah for the gentleman ! ' Another voice supplemented the cry with , And hurrah for the little man that held his coat . ' [ Laughter . ] The friend who ...
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... better , it is better , that the body of the people , with all its faults , should act for itself , and control its own affairs , than that it should be set aside . as ignorant and incapable , and have its affairs managed for it by a so ...
... better , it is better , that the body of the people , with all its faults , should act for itself , and control its own affairs , than that it should be set aside . as ignorant and incapable , and have its affairs managed for it by a so ...
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... better . The Germans have plenty of faults , but in this combination they seem not to have taken hold ; the Germans seem to have given of their seriousness and honesty to the conquered Gallo - Latin , and not of their brutality . And ...
... better . The Germans have plenty of faults , but in this combination they seem not to have taken hold ; the Germans seem to have given of their seriousness and honesty to the conquered Gallo - Latin , and not of their brutality . And ...
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