Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page xi
... young clergyman to avoid the endeavoring at wit , not only because the chances were little less than a million to one that he had none , but because he had better not use it in a sermon , even if he did have it . A sermon , the famous ...
... young clergyman to avoid the endeavoring at wit , not only because the chances were little less than a million to one that he had none , but because he had better not use it in a sermon , even if he did have it . A sermon , the famous ...
Page xxvi
... young reader is very much stimulated by merely dipping into a book . If you say , " You should look at Wilkinson's Herodotus , " that means nothing to him , but if you show him Wilkinson's " Herodotus " and he reads two pages of it , he ...
... young reader is very much stimulated by merely dipping into a book . If you say , " You should look at Wilkinson's Herodotus , " that means nothing to him , but if you show him Wilkinson's " Herodotus " and he reads two pages of it , he ...
Page 8
... young chimpanzee and the young orang- outang approach the child much nearer than the adult monkey approaches the adult man . It is a curious fact that , in their earlier age , when the characteristic features are not yet stamped with ...
... young chimpanzee and the young orang- outang approach the child much nearer than the adult monkey approaches the adult man . It is a curious fact that , in their earlier age , when the characteristic features are not yet stamped with ...
Page 61
... young and middle - aged and old to attempt , by philosophic rea- soning , to reach into these unfathomable depths . They produce a power upon the brain of most transcendent im- portance ; they in their way may not increase the sum of ...
... young and middle - aged and old to attempt , by philosophic rea- soning , to reach into these unfathomable depths . They produce a power upon the brain of most transcendent im- portance ; they in their way may not increase the sum of ...
Page 75
... Young . " But a boy's enthusiasm for a favorite poet is a thing to rejoice over . The years that bring the philosophic mind will not bring - they must find - enthusiasm . In 1750 , Burke ( being then twenty - one ) came for the first ...
... Young . " But a boy's enthusiasm for a favorite poet is a thing to rejoice over . The years that bring the philosophic mind will not bring - they must find - enthusiasm . In 1750 , Burke ( being then twenty - one ) came for the first ...
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