Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 868
... truth about ourselves , and this , indeed , is what we must always insist upon in our literature - the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth . Lowell reminded us that Goethe went to the root of the matter when he said 868 ...
... truth about ourselves , and this , indeed , is what we must always insist upon in our literature - the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth . Lowell reminded us that Goethe went to the root of the matter when he said 868 ...
Page 1058
... truth in them . They portray our actual state so truly that , though they may not be the whole truth , it is well we should remember them , for they cannot be altogether gainsaid . I have now done with the exposition of Mr. Arnold's ...
... truth in them . They portray our actual state so truly that , though they may not be the whole truth , it is well we should remember them , for they cannot be altogether gainsaid . I have now done with the exposition of Mr. Arnold's ...
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... Truth does not come thus . It re- quires research and knowledge . We know well where the truth is , or where it might be found . But we dream of that only in the recesses of our souls and we feel patriotic anguish lest we expose ...
... Truth does not come thus . It re- quires research and knowledge . We know well where the truth is , or where it might be found . But we dream of that only in the recesses of our souls and we feel patriotic anguish lest we expose ...
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