Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... turn to the subject of this evening's lecture , and consider with you the question of the relation which exists between the monkey and man . That question is a recent question . Ancient naturalists did not think of comparing man and ...
... turn to the subject of this evening's lecture , and consider with you the question of the relation which exists between the monkey and man . That question is a recent question . Ancient naturalists did not think of comparing man and ...
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... , is the famous sentence of the New Testament : " Many are called , few chosen . " This appears a hard saying ; frequent are the endeavors to elude it , to attenuate its severity . But turn it THE MAJORITY AND THE REMNANT 29.
... , is the famous sentence of the New Testament : " Many are called , few chosen . " This appears a hard saying ; frequent are the endeavors to elude it , to attenuate its severity . But turn it THE MAJORITY AND THE REMNANT 29.
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... turn it how you will , manipulate it as you will , the few , as Cardinal Newman well says , can never mean the many . Perhaps you will say that the majority is , sometimes , good ; that its impulses are good generally , and its action ...
... turn it how you will , manipulate it as you will , the few , as Cardinal Newman well says , can never mean the many . Perhaps you will say that the majority is , sometimes , good ; that its impulses are good generally , and its action ...
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... turn to the people of religion . We have heard Plato speaking of the very small remnant which honestly sought wisdom . The remnant ! -it is the word of the Hebrew prophets also , and especially is it the word of the greatest of them all ...
... turn to the people of religion . We have heard Plato speaking of the very small remnant which honestly sought wisdom . The remnant ! -it is the word of the Hebrew prophets also , and especially is it the word of the greatest of them all ...
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... turn . She is be- coming the great recognized power there ; never was any- thing like it . M. Renan himself seems half inclined to apologize for not having paid her more attention . " Nat- ure cares nothing for chastity , " says he ...
... turn . She is be- coming the great recognized power there ; never was any- thing like it . M. Renan himself seems half inclined to apologize for not having paid her more attention . " Nat- ure cares nothing for chastity , " says he ...
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