Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 828
... existence in Greece has long since died into the all - devouring silence , but that broken figure remains to thrill and inspire a world which has forgotten the name of the man who breathed the breath of life into it . It is a visible ...
... existence in Greece has long since died into the all - devouring silence , but that broken figure remains to thrill and inspire a world which has forgotten the name of the man who breathed the breath of life into it . It is a visible ...
Page 837
... existence of your University . At such jubilees , jubilees of which no individual sees more than one , it is natural , and it is good , that a society like this , a society which survives all the transitory parts of which it is composed ...
... existence of your University . At such jubilees , jubilees of which no individual sees more than one , it is natural , and it is good , that a society like this , a society which survives all the transitory parts of which it is composed ...
Page 838
... existence just in time to witness the disappearance of the last trace of the Roman empire , and to witness the publication of the earliest printed book . At this conjuncture , a conjuncture of unrivaled interest in the history of ...
... existence just in time to witness the disappearance of the last trace of the Roman empire , and to witness the publication of the earliest printed book . At this conjuncture , a conjuncture of unrivaled interest in the history of ...
Page 840
... existence . We find Europe , we find Scotland especially , in the agonies of that great revolution which we emphatically call the Reformation . The liberal patronage which Nicholas , and men like Nicholas , had given to learning , and ...
... existence . We find Europe , we find Scotland especially , in the agonies of that great revolution which we emphatically call the Reformation . The liberal patronage which Nicholas , and men like Nicholas , had given to learning , and ...
Page 841
... existence of your University closed . Pass another hundred years ; and we are in the midst of another revolution . The war between Popery and Protestantism had , in this island , been terminated by the victory of Protestantism . But ...
... existence of your University closed . Pass another hundred years ; and we are in the midst of another revolution . The war between Popery and Protestantism had , in this island , been terminated by the victory of Protestantism . But ...
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