Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 529
... learned leisure . " This is doubtless the truth , but it is only a half- truth . Universities with ample resources for the support of investigators , scholars , thinkers , and philosophers , nu- merous enough , learned enough , and wise ...
... learned leisure . " This is doubtless the truth , but it is only a half- truth . Universities with ample resources for the support of investigators , scholars , thinkers , and philosophers , nu- merous enough , learned enough , and wise ...
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... learned that the $ 400,000,000 annually received from our cotton crop will make us rich , when the supplies that make it are home - raised . We have reduced the com- mercial rate of interest from twenty - four to six per cent . and are ...
... learned that the $ 400,000,000 annually received from our cotton crop will make us rich , when the supplies that make it are home - raised . We have reduced the com- mercial rate of interest from twenty - four to six per cent . and are ...
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... learned in that school little of the grace or the luxury of life . But they learned how to build States and how to fight tyrants . They would have found much , these two sisters , 664 GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR.
... learned in that school little of the grace or the luxury of life . But they learned how to build States and how to fight tyrants . They would have found much , these two sisters , 664 GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR.
Contents
VOLUME VIII | 399 |
ELIOT CHARLES WILLIAM | 413 |
EMERSON RALPH WALDO | 419 |
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