Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page vii
... less than three thousand people , and Madison Square Garden thirteen thousand ! If the orator could convert them all , he would hardly disturb the majority of either party . What a difference between an audience in either place and the ...
... less than three thousand people , and Madison Square Garden thirteen thousand ! If the orator could convert them all , he would hardly disturb the majority of either party . What a difference between an audience in either place and the ...
Page viii
... less , a speech suitable for a campaign , and delivered at the proper time , may still have wide circulation and a three months ' immortality . Commencements have not lost their liking for orations , and viii THOMAS BRACKETT REED.
... less , a speech suitable for a campaign , and delivered at the proper time , may still have wide circulation and a three months ' immortality . Commencements have not lost their liking for orations , and viii THOMAS BRACKETT REED.
Page xi
... less than a million to one that he had none , but because he had 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 ...
... less than a million to one that he had none , but because he had 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 ...
Page xii
... less per- manent as the cause of association was temporary or persistent . With the association came the cement- ing influence of the banquet , with food and flowing bowl . To watch at any dinner now the gradual ex- haustion of talk ...
... less per- manent as the cause of association was temporary or persistent . With the association came the cement- ing influence of the banquet , with food and flowing bowl . To watch at any dinner now the gradual ex- haustion of talk ...
Page xxii
... less dis- tinctly , with the multiplication - table , the kingdom of heaven would come on earth , and people who had died would enter into a similar kingdom . That is to say , the folly was in the air of supposing if people only know ...
... less dis- tinctly , with the multiplication - table , the kingdom of heaven would come on earth , and people who had died would enter into a similar kingdom . That is to say , the folly was in the air of supposing if people only know ...
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