Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 17
... eyes ; and a third swelling from which arises the nerve which goes to the ear , and other nerves which go to different parts , about which I need not now trouble you . These three swellings are so constituted that the first formation is ...
... eyes ; and a third swelling from which arises the nerve which goes to the ear , and other nerves which go to different parts , about which I need not now trouble you . These three swellings are so constituted that the first formation is ...
Page 34
... eyes , the world of actual life , the State and city of the unsound majority , could not stand . Unlike Plato , Isaiah announced with faith and joy a leader and a rem- nant certain to supersede them . But he put the leader's coming ...
... eyes , the world of actual life , the State and city of the unsound majority , could not stand . Unlike Plato , Isaiah announced with faith and joy a leader and a rem- nant certain to supersede them . But he put the leader's coming ...
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... eyes upon him to their last sad parting by the waters of death . In 1761 that shrewd old gossip , Horace Walpole , met Burke for the first time at dinner , and remarks of him in a letter to George Montague : " I dined at Hamilton's ...
... eyes upon him to their last sad parting by the waters of death . In 1761 that shrewd old gossip , Horace Walpole , met Burke for the first time at dinner , and remarks of him in a letter to George Montague : " I dined at Hamilton's ...
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... for presumptuous ignorance that it is directed by insolent passion . The poorest being that crawls on earth , contending to save itself from injustice and oppres- sion , is an object respectable in the eyes of 84 AUGUSTINE BİRRELL.
... for presumptuous ignorance that it is directed by insolent passion . The poorest being that crawls on earth , contending to save itself from injustice and oppres- sion , is an object respectable in the eyes of 84 AUGUSTINE BİRRELL.
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... eyes of God and man . But I cannot conceive any existence under heaven ( which in the depths of its wisdom tolerates all sorts of things ) that is more truly odious and disgusting than an impotent , helpless creature , without civil ...
... eyes of God and man . But I cannot conceive any existence under heaven ( which in the depths of its wisdom tolerates all sorts of things ) that is more truly odious and disgusting than an impotent , helpless creature , without civil ...
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