Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... friends love to treasure up the words spoken of their dead com- panions and to hold for truth forever the outbursts of kindly enthusiasm which death has ushered in . In Congress the funeral oration still survives , and much eloquence ...
... friends love to treasure up the words spoken of their dead com- panions and to hold for truth forever the outbursts of kindly enthusiasm which death has ushered in . In Congress the funeral oration still survives , and much eloquence ...
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... friends in the year 1807. Coleridge had broken into life as a Unitarian preacher . It may be guessed that his Sunday preaching was ethical rather than devout , if we are to take the one sermon which is remembered as an illustration of ...
... friends in the year 1807. Coleridge had broken into life as a Unitarian preacher . It may be guessed that his Sunday preaching was ethical rather than devout , if we are to take the one sermon which is remembered as an illustration of ...
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... friends arranged for his lectures in London , and for Car- lyle's , no one thought of evening audiences . The con- stituency for which they were delivered were people who had more time in the daytime for such purposes than they had in ...
... friends arranged for his lectures in London , and for Car- lyle's , no one thought of evening audiences . The con- stituency for which they were delivered were people who had more time in the daytime for such purposes than they had in ...
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... friend who was to have played the part of the little man ' of my story was Rev. Phillips Brooks , who is unfortunately prevented from coming this evening by indisposition . I have been asked to fill his place , which , in my point of ...
... friend who was to have played the part of the little man ' of my story was Rev. Phillips Brooks , who is unfortunately prevented from coming this evening by indisposition . I have been asked to fill his place , which , in my point of ...
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... friends , went the rounds of the United States , and , he added , " I now understand what Dizzy ' * meant when he said that I per- formed a great achievement ' by launching phrases . ' " ] " 66 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : -There is a ...
... friends , went the rounds of the United States , and , he added , " I now understand what Dizzy ' * meant when he said that I per- formed a great achievement ' by launching phrases . ' " ] " 66 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : -There is a ...
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