Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 833
... civilization in a community . Such men invest life for the average man with romance and beauty . Failure to recognize and honor superiority of character , gift , and achievement is the peculiar peril of democracies , which often confuse ...
... civilization in a community . Such men invest life for the average man with romance and beauty . Failure to recognize and honor superiority of character , gift , and achievement is the peculiar peril of democracies , which often confuse ...
Page 847
... civilization is rich beyond computation . The obligations under which he has placed mankind are sacred and commanding . The responsibility he has left for the American people to pre- serve and perfect what he accomplished is exacting ...
... civilization is rich beyond computation . The obligations under which he has placed mankind are sacred and commanding . The responsibility he has left for the American people to pre- serve and perfect what he accomplished is exacting ...
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... civilization to be deeply de- plored . " ] towards his Imperial Majesty of Russia . No man can have watched the last year of the imperial family , no man can know the condition in which the Emperor stands now without a profound sympathy ...
... civilization to be deeply de- plored . " ] towards his Imperial Majesty of Russia . No man can have watched the last year of the imperial family , no man can know the condition in which the Emperor stands now without a profound sympathy ...
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... civilizations that have arisen one on the ruin of the other , the Roman supplanting the Greek , as the Assyrian had been ousted by the Babylonian . The life of each of these successive civilizations was proportioned to the vitality of ...
... civilizations that have arisen one on the ruin of the other , the Roman supplanting the Greek , as the Assyrian had been ousted by the Babylonian . The life of each of these successive civilizations was proportioned to the vitality of ...
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... civilization has obtained a standpoint , or Christianity has erected the Banner of the Cross . In all the West India islands , and in various parts of South America , as in Peru , Venezuela , New Granada , Guiana , Brazil , Chili , etc ...
... civilization has obtained a standpoint , or Christianity has erected the Banner of the Cross . In all the West India islands , and in various parts of South America , as in Peru , Venezuela , New Granada , Guiana , Brazil , Chili , etc ...
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