Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 466
... noble sense of the dignity of labor , the noble superiority to the vanities of feudalism , a strong conviction that men are to be honored simply as men , and not for the prizes of birth and accident , which are without them . You have ...
... noble sense of the dignity of labor , the noble superiority to the vanities of feudalism , a strong conviction that men are to be honored simply as men , and not for the prizes of birth and accident , which are without them . You have ...
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... noble ends ; the president of Yale College , who this day assumes his high office with the unanimous plaudits of Yalensians , is the representa- tive of the university idea based upon academic traditions ; the voice of Princeton , like ...
... noble ends ; the president of Yale College , who this day assumes his high office with the unanimous plaudits of Yalensians , is the representa- tive of the university idea based upon academic traditions ; the voice of Princeton , like ...
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... noble furrow in his country's fallow fields . since the wrist of Horace Greeley rested . No age of the Republic has witnessed such marvelous conjunction of a magic pen with the velvet splendor of a mellow tongue , and though the warlike ...
... noble furrow in his country's fallow fields . since the wrist of Horace Greeley rested . No age of the Republic has witnessed such marvelous conjunction of a magic pen with the velvet splendor of a mellow tongue , and though the warlike ...
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VOLUME VIII | 399 |
ELIOT CHARLES WILLIAM | 413 |
EMERSON RALPH WALDO | 419 |
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