Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page xvii
... told that they must not go to week - day lectures , the more those men swore , that , as God lived , they would . It is curious to me to see that for twenty references to these Puritan lectures which I could find in our New England ...
... told that they must not go to week - day lectures , the more those men swore , that , as God lived , they would . It is curious to me to see that for twenty references to these Puritan lectures which I could find in our New England ...
Page xxi
... told me in 1849 that when in 1848 his friends arranged for his lectures in London , and for Car- lyle's , no one thought of evening audiences . The con- stituency for which they were delivered were people who had more time in the ...
... told me in 1849 that when in 1848 his friends arranged for his lectures in London , and for Car- lyle's , no one thought of evening audiences . The con- stituency for which they were delivered were people who had more time in the ...
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... told me by a schoolmate , a nephew of the late Washington Allston , in reference to Mr. Edmund Dana . He was of short stature , and was walking the streets of London with a gentleman much taller than himself , when the latter was run ...
... told me by a schoolmate , a nephew of the late Washington Allston , in reference to Mr. Edmund Dana . He was of short stature , and was walking the streets of London with a gentleman much taller than himself , when the latter was run ...
Page 44
... told us so himself . He was brought up for a priest , and he thinks it would . not have been in good taste for him to become a free liver . But this abstinence is a mere matter of personal delicacy , a display of good and correct taste ...
... told us so himself . He was brought up for a priest , and he thinks it would . not have been in good taste for him to become a free liver . But this abstinence is a mere matter of personal delicacy , a display of good and correct taste ...
Page 89
... told , though it makes interesting reading in the twenty - second volume of Howell's " State Trials , " where at the end of the report is to be found the following note : " The proceedings against Messrs . Powell and Bembridge ...
... told , though it makes interesting reading in the twenty - second volume of Howell's " State Trials , " where at the end of the report is to be found the following note : " The proceedings against Messrs . Powell and Bembridge ...
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