Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page xvii
... political life . In John Bunyan's Memoirs , however , there is one distinguished exception to this silence . Here is more than one reference either to his speaking on week - days or listening at week - day addresses . I suppose that ...
... political life . In John Bunyan's Memoirs , however , there is one distinguished exception to this silence . Here is more than one reference either to his speaking on week - days or listening at week - day addresses . I suppose that ...
Page xxiv
... political principles , and that without hindrance . Such names as those of Wendell Phillips , Theodore Parker , and Mr. Garrison , and names of speakers on temperance and other lines of philanthropic reform , will readily suggest ...
... political principles , and that without hindrance . Such names as those of Wendell Phillips , Theodore Parker , and Mr. Garrison , and names of speakers on temperance and other lines of philanthropic reform , will readily suggest ...
Page xxv
... political literature of the time . Granting now that the original system is at an end , by which a local board of educators provided a course of lectures for every winter , and setting aside what we LECTURES AND LECTURERS XXV.
... political literature of the time . Granting now that the original system is at an end , by which a local board of educators provided a course of lectures for every winter , and setting aside what we LECTURES AND LECTURERS XXV.
Page 37
... politics . But the philosophers and prophets main- tain that these matters , and not those of which the heads of politicians are full , do really govern politics and save or destroy States . They save or destroy them by a silent ...
... politics . But the philosophers and prophets main- tain that these matters , and not those of which the heads of politicians are full , do really govern politics and save or destroy States . They save or destroy them by a silent ...
Page 38
... politicians invent Land Acts for curing the last results of the old failure in justice , for insuring the contentment of the Irish with us , and for consolidating the Union : and are surprised and plaintive if it is not consolidated ...
... politicians invent Land Acts for curing the last results of the old failure in justice , for insuring the contentment of the Irish with us , and for consolidating the Union : and are surprised and plaintive if it is not consolidated ...
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