Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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... never a politician , and a poli- tician is never a poet [ laughter and cheers ] —that is to say , a politician is never so fortunate as to be a poet , and a poet is so fortunate as never to be a politician . [ Re- newed laughter . ] I ...
... never a politician , and a poli- tician is never a poet [ laughter and cheers ] —that is to say , a politician is never so fortunate as to be a poet , and a poet is so fortunate as never to be a politician . [ Re- newed laughter . ] I ...
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... never gain the pleasure , because they never can have the virtue . " Apply this to the present subject . They who seek relig- ion for culture - sake are ęsthetic , not religious , and will never gain that grace which religion adds to ...
... never gain the pleasure , because they never can have the virtue . " Apply this to the present subject . They who seek relig- ion for culture - sake are ęsthetic , not religious , and will never gain that grace which religion adds to ...
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... never ceased to stand , in his bony angles , the express image of the ungainly frontiersman . His mind never lost the vein of coarseness that had marked him grossly when a youth . And yet how he grew and strengthened in the real stuff ...
... never ceased to stand , in his bony angles , the express image of the ungainly frontiersman . His mind never lost the vein of coarseness that had marked him grossly when a youth . And yet how he grew and strengthened in the real stuff ...
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