Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 597
... tion instead of narrowing it . [ Applause . ] But applied science is far from constituting the whole theme of a library ; nor is the study of such science the highest object which it stimulates . We are citizens as well as wage ...
... tion instead of narrowing it . [ Applause . ] But applied science is far from constituting the whole theme of a library ; nor is the study of such science the highest object which it stimulates . We are citizens as well as wage ...
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... tion or the appliances for preservation , to the facilities for distribution or the sources of production and accumula- tion , we shall find nothing in the past comparable to the achievement of the present . But all these gigantic ele ...
... tion or the appliances for preservation , to the facilities for distribution or the sources of production and accumula- tion , we shall find nothing in the past comparable to the achievement of the present . But all these gigantic ele ...
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... tion was over 47. It had been as high as 52. Since then it has steadily fallen to 22 as an average , and in a paren- thesis I may say I am proud to find that in the metropolis we are substantially below the average . The proportion ...
... tion was over 47. It had been as high as 52. Since then it has steadily fallen to 22 as an average , and in a paren- thesis I may say I am proud to find that in the metropolis we are substantially below the average . The proportion ...
Contents
VOLUME VIII | 399 |
ELIOT CHARLES WILLIAM | 413 |
EMERSON RALPH WALDO | 419 |
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