Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 419
... perhaps , not enough of labor . We do not meet for games of strength or skill , for the recitation of histories , tragedies , and odes , like the ancient Greeks ; for parliaments of love and poesy , like the Troubadours ; nor for the ...
... perhaps , not enough of labor . We do not meet for games of strength or skill , for the recitation of histories , tragedies , and odes , like the ancient Greeks ; for parliaments of love and poesy , like the Troubadours ; nor for the ...
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... perhaps , not the principal results of the conquests I have described . If they have done much for industry they have done more for capital ; if much for labor , more for luxury . They have enormously extended the numbers - they have ...
... perhaps , not the principal results of the conquests I have described . If they have done much for industry they have done more for capital ; if much for labor , more for luxury . They have enormously extended the numbers - they have ...
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... perhaps its most distinctive characteristic this — that it pos- sesses a history . This history is among the most potent and effective of all the instruments of human education . It introduces us to forms of thought and action , which ...
... perhaps its most distinctive characteristic this — that it pos- sesses a history . This history is among the most potent and effective of all the instruments of human education . It introduces us to forms of thought and action , which ...
Contents
VOLUME VIII | 399 |
ELIOT CHARLES WILLIAM | 413 |
EMERSON RALPH WALDO | 419 |
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