Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 844
... hope , mention with high honor some of my young friends who now hear me ; and he will , I also hope , be able to add that their talents and learning were not wasted on selfish or ignoble objects , but were employed to promote the ...
... hope , mention with high honor some of my young friends who now hear me ; and he will , I also hope , be able to add that their talents and learning were not wasted on selfish or ignoble objects , but were employed to promote the ...
Page 893
... hope has failed some of us ; on what our hopes are founded to - day I may be able to tell you partly this evening , but I will now give you a glimpse of the abyss into which our earlier hope tumbled . Let us look back a little to the ...
... hope has failed some of us ; on what our hopes are founded to - day I may be able to tell you partly this evening , but I will now give you a glimpse of the abyss into which our earlier hope tumbled . Let us look back a little to the ...
Page 907
... hope I mostly do , that it was my good luck only of being born respectable and rich that has put me on this side of ... hope of it ? If so , I can only say that civilization is a delusion and a lie ; there is no such thing and no hope of ...
... hope I mostly do , that it was my good luck only of being born respectable and rich that has put me on this side of ... hope of it ? If so , I can only say that civilization is a delusion and a lie ; there is no such thing and no hope of ...
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