Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Volume 15Mayo Williamson Hazeltine P. F. Collier & Son, 1905 - 11114 pages |
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Page 6140
... action , making perhaps the turmoil and the torture of an age , die away like thunder on the summer air ; while a silent thought or aimless deed emerges from obscurity and speaks with royal voice through many a century . To lose sight ...
... action , making perhaps the turmoil and the torture of an age , die away like thunder on the summer air ; while a silent thought or aimless deed emerges from obscurity and speaks with royal voice through many a century . To lose sight ...
Page 6145
... action , is the real soul of the entire religion ; and it reaches us , alas ! only in refracted lights , or through un- intended openings in the crust of Messianic doctrine . Ob- serve , too , the effect of this Judaic medium upon the ...
... action , is the real soul of the entire religion ; and it reaches us , alas ! only in refracted lights , or through un- intended openings in the crust of Messianic doctrine . Ob- serve , too , the effect of this Judaic medium upon the ...
Page 6155
... actions ! Neither re- proach nor persecution , neither wealth nor power , neither bolts nor bars , neither the gibbet ... action . Loud as the tempest of oppression may rage around them , above it shall their rallying cry be heard in the ...
... actions ! Neither re- proach nor persecution , neither wealth nor power , neither bolts nor bars , neither the gibbet ... action . Loud as the tempest of oppression may rage around them , above it shall their rallying cry be heard in the ...
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... action , and to tell us what he recom- mended us to do . But , in my judgment , he has entirely avoided it . He has failed to look the thing in the face . He has acted like the ostrich , which hides her head and thereby thinks to escape ...
... action , and to tell us what he recom- mended us to do . But , in my judgment , he has entirely avoided it . He has failed to look the thing in the face . He has acted like the ostrich , which hides her head and thereby thinks to escape ...
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... action to carry out the great experiment of human liberty , we shall present a most humiliating spectacle . Why , sir , the very day , the very hour , that we are coming to such a result and thus developing our experiment , the States ...
... action to carry out the great experiment of human liberty , we shall present a most humiliating spectacle . Why , sir , the very day , the very hour , that we are coming to such a result and thus developing our experiment , the States ...
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