Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page vii
... things to do and fewer things to think of . In those old days you could meet and harangue the whole deciding multitude ; for Athens in its prime had but twenty thousand free citizens ; eight thousand was good attendance ; and the human ...
... things to do and fewer things to think of . In those old days you could meet and harangue the whole deciding multitude ; for Athens in its prime had but twenty thousand free citizens ; eight thousand was good attendance ; and the human ...
Page viii
... things else in a republic grown from three to seventy - six millions , it has lost its old proportion , and now struggles in vain for an audience as wide as of yore . No metropolitan paper publishes even a synopsis of the debates , and ...
... things else in a republic grown from three to seventy - six millions , it has lost its old proportion , and now struggles in vain for an audience as wide as of yore . No metropolitan paper publishes even a synopsis of the debates , and ...
Page xxxiv
... , if it can be done , in what way things originated and what is the primary cause of the differences which we observe among them . P LOUIS JEAN RODOLPHE AGASSIZ Photogravure after a photograph from 2 LOUIS JEAN RODOLPHE AGASSIZ.
... , if it can be done , in what way things originated and what is the primary cause of the differences which we observe among them . P LOUIS JEAN RODOLPHE AGASSIZ Photogravure after a photograph from 2 LOUIS JEAN RODOLPHE AGASSIZ.
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... things are not what , in my judgment , they are , and that the consequences of them will not be what they will be . I should make nothing of it ; I should be a too palpable failure . But I confess that I should be glad if in what I say ...
... things are not what , in my judgment , they are , and that the consequences of them will not be what they will be . I should make nothing of it ; I should be a too palpable failure . But I confess that I should be glad if in what I say ...
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... things as Plato saw them . No , if we had seen Athens even nearer its end than when Plato wrote the strong words which I have been quoting , Athens in the very last days of Plato's life , we should most of us probably have considered ...
... things as Plato saw them . No , if we had seen Athens even nearer its end than when Plato wrote the strong words which I have been quoting , Athens in the very last days of Plato's life , we should most of us probably have considered ...
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