Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page vi
... never said : " You should have heard the lion himself , " when in exile he praised his superior , but if he was made to say it — if the story was invented - it was because the truth was deeper than the fact . What we call in America ...
... never said : " You should have heard the lion himself , " when in exile he praised his superior , but if he was made to say it — if the story was invented - it was because the truth was deeper than the fact . What we call in America ...
Page xx
... never heard him do anything else . Coleridge and his friends conceived the idea of bringing into a focus the brilliant rays of his conversation , and in the year 1807 announced a series of lectures by him to be delivered in the daytime ...
... never heard him do anything else . Coleridge and his friends conceived the idea of bringing into a focus the brilliant rays of his conversation , and in the year 1807 announced a series of lectures by him to be delivered in the daytime ...
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... never been put in practice . Such courses are limited to a particular subject , and treat that subject in a continuous series , reinforced and illustrated by the personal advice of the lecturer , and by books well chosen by him , and ...
... never been put in practice . Such courses are limited to a particular subject , and treat that subject in a continuous series , reinforced and illustrated by the personal advice of the lecturer , and by books well chosen by him , and ...
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... never weary of telling us how many acres of land you have at your disposal , how many bushels of grain you produce , how many millions you are , how many more millions you will be presently , and what a capital thing this is for you ...
... never weary of telling us how many acres of land you have at your disposal , how many bushels of grain you produce , how many millions you are , how many more millions you will be presently , and what a capital thing this is for you ...
Page 38
... never thought of that ! Quite outside their combinations lies this hindrance , tend- ing to make their most elaborate combinations ineffectual . Thus the joint operation of two moral causes together- the 38 MATTHEW ARNOLD.
... never thought of that ! Quite outside their combinations lies this hindrance , tend- ing to make their most elaborate combinations ineffectual . Thus the joint operation of two moral causes together- the 38 MATTHEW ARNOLD.
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