Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page xxvii
... poor name in- vented for a convenient and practicable plan which has attained considerable success in England and has been introduced in this country . This plan supposes that a number of gentlemen com- petent to teach , and thoroughly ...
... poor name in- vented for a convenient and practicable plan which has attained considerable success in England and has been introduced in this country . This plan supposes that a number of gentlemen com- petent to teach , and thoroughly ...
Page 49
... poor in- attentive and immoral creature , man , to love and appro- priate and make part of his being divine ideas , on which he could not otherwise have laid or kept hold , the dis- cipline of Puritanism has been invaluable ; and the ...
... poor in- attentive and immoral creature , man , to love and appro- priate and make part of his being divine ideas , on which he could not otherwise have laid or kept hold , the dis- cipline of Puritanism has been invaluable ; and the ...
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... poor stuff to make an obedient slave out of ! Never- theless , they are like blind men trying to find their way into the open air , and if they stumble or go into wrong departments , are they to be derided and cursed ? Because they are ...
... poor stuff to make an obedient slave out of ! Never- theless , they are like blind men trying to find their way into the open air , and if they stumble or go into wrong departments , are they to be derided and cursed ? Because they are ...
Page 59
... poor if you do not exert yourself ; " and at every future stage it lies with each man what his condition in society is to be . This becomes a very powerful developer of the cerebral mass , and from it comes intelligence and power of ...
... poor if you do not exert yourself ; " and at every future stage it lies with each man what his condition in society is to be . This becomes a very powerful developer of the cerebral mass , and from it comes intelligence and power of ...
Page 62
... poor and to the ignorant , are perpetually acting as an inward fire , and developing intelligence in ways not common to the other forms of religious worship . Well , what has been the result of all these influences which have been ...
... poor and to the ignorant , are perpetually acting as an inward fire , and developing intelligence in ways not common to the other forms of religious worship . Well , what has been the result of all these influences which have been ...
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