Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 469
... cause for which General Grant fought - the honor of a great people and the freedom of a whole race of man- kind - was a great and noble cause . And the South has accepted that desperate and bloody arbitrament . Two of the Southern ...
... cause for which General Grant fought - the honor of a great people and the freedom of a whole race of man- kind - was a great and noble cause . And the South has accepted that desperate and bloody arbitrament . Two of the Southern ...
Page 540
... causes is negative . It is , speaking generally , not the doing of good so much as the undoing of mischief , and it has among other effects pro- vided an enormous scope and field for the positive action of the second cause . At this ...
... causes is negative . It is , speaking generally , not the doing of good so much as the undoing of mischief , and it has among other effects pro- vided an enormous scope and field for the positive action of the second cause . At this ...
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... cause of our failure to advance in population , wealth , and power , in the laws of immigration , by parallels of lati- tude , and in the exclusive adaptedness of the South to ag- riculture , will not convince . The truth is ...
... cause of our failure to advance in population , wealth , and power , in the laws of immigration , by parallels of lati- tude , and in the exclusive adaptedness of the South to ag- riculture , will not convince . The truth is ...
Contents
VOLUME VIII | 399 |
ELIOT CHARLES WILLIAM | 413 |
EMERSON RALPH WALDO | 419 |
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