Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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... ture needed another decade for its complete unfolding and coördination ; and of Walt Whitman , who was so rich . in the elemental qualities of imagination , and so rarely master of them . There was something distinctive in each of these ...
... ture needed another decade for its complete unfolding and coördination ; and of Walt Whitman , who was so rich . in the elemental qualities of imagination , and so rarely master of them . There was something distinctive in each of these ...
Page 841
... ture of Greece and Rome necessarily grew too strong to be trammeled by the cobwebs of the scholastic divinity ; and the influence of such minds was now rapidly felt by the whole community ; for the invention of printing had brought ...
... ture of Greece and Rome necessarily grew too strong to be trammeled by the cobwebs of the scholastic divinity ; and the influence of such minds was now rapidly felt by the whole community ; for the invention of printing had brought ...
Page 1065
... ture , and differs only to surpass it ; its estimate of the disease is so much deeper , and the remedy to which it turns so far transcends all human nostrums . Christianity , too , holds out perfection as the goal . But in doing so its ...
... ture , and differs only to surpass it ; its estimate of the disease is so much deeper , and the remedy to which it turns so far transcends all human nostrums . Christianity , too , holds out perfection as the goal . But in doing so its ...
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