Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 903
... civilization ? I am afraid whatever answer I may make to that ques- tion will disappoint you . I myself suffer so sorely from the lack above mentioned that I have little remedy in myself save that of fostering discontent . I have no in ...
... civilization ? I am afraid whatever answer I may make to that ques- tion will disappoint you . I myself suffer so sorely from the lack above mentioned that I have little remedy in myself save that of fostering discontent . I have no in ...
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... civilization ? of a civilization that is too apt to boast in after - dinner speeches ; too apt to thrust her blessings on far - off peoples at the cannon's mouth before she has improved the quality of those blessings so far that they ...
... civilization ? of a civilization that is too apt to boast in after - dinner speeches ; too apt to thrust her blessings on far - off peoples at the cannon's mouth before she has improved the quality of those blessings so far that they ...
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... civilization they have brought forth has been as transient as themselves . Neither government nor civilization contained any ele- ment of permanence , until they came to be founded upon the principles of civil and religious liberty ...
... civilization they have brought forth has been as transient as themselves . Neither government nor civilization contained any ele- ment of permanence , until they came to be founded upon the principles of civil and religious liberty ...
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