Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page ix
... means to him who has passed away only revelation or fancy can depict . What , how- ever , it is to him it will also be to all of us . We tread the path with no consciousness of companionship , and yet we know that all the countless ...
... means to him who has passed away only revelation or fancy can depict . What , how- ever , it is to him it will also be to all of us . We tread the path with no consciousness of companionship , and yet we know that all the countless ...
Page xi
... means a discourse against adversaries and involves imme- diate conviction and persuasion . As we think of an oration we think of a discourse which seems to be the sud- den and consecutive outpouring of a full mind at that moment aroused ...
... means a discourse against adversaries and involves imme- diate conviction and persuasion . As we think of an oration we think of a discourse which seems to be the sud- den and consecutive outpouring of a full mind at that moment aroused ...
Page xix
... means to be interesting to intelligent readers in the Twentieth cen- tury : - John Cotton , Sermon at the Boston Lecture After Repeated Shocks of the Earthquake . Cotton Mather - The Present State of New England - Discourse on the ...
... means to be interesting to intelligent readers in the Twentieth cen- tury : - John Cotton , Sermon at the Boston Lecture After Repeated Shocks of the Earthquake . Cotton Mather - The Present State of New England - Discourse on the ...
Page xxvi
... means to consider . He would bring the people together to interest them in those subjects . In such a way he would obtain their permission and coöperation in " starting a course , " as the phrase is . Now suppose that course has been ...
... means to consider . He would bring the people together to interest them in those subjects . In such a way he would obtain their permission and coöperation in " starting a course , " as the phrase is . Now suppose that course has been ...
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... mean to charge those who entertain the idea of a transmutation with denying the intervention of a creative power in the acts of the world . I do not charge them with denying the interference of God in nature , but I charge them with ...
... mean to charge those who entertain the idea of a transmutation with denying the intervention of a creative power in the acts of the world . I do not charge them with denying the interference of God in nature , but I charge them with ...
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