Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 817
... freedom , the right to be happy , and the faith that life is greater than its works , and a man more important than his toil . A race , like an individual , must get this con- sciousness of possession before the work of the day be ...
... freedom , the right to be happy , and the faith that life is greater than its works , and a man more important than his toil . A race , like an individual , must get this con- sciousness of possession before the work of the day be ...
Page 819
... freedom , the joyousness , of creative art were not in it . They could not be in it ; the men who wrote our early chronicles and his- tories , who took part in the great debates which pre- ceded the Revolution , and made the speeches ...
... freedom , the joyousness , of creative art were not in it . They could not be in it ; the men who wrote our early chronicles and his- tories , who took part in the great debates which pre- ceded the Revolution , and made the speeches ...
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... freedom and power and beauty . One of the greatest privileges of the average man is to recognize and honor the superior man , because the su- perior man makes it worth while to belong to the race by giving life a dignity and splendor ...
... freedom and power and beauty . One of the greatest privileges of the average man is to recognize and honor the superior man , because the su- perior man makes it worth while to belong to the race by giving life a dignity and splendor ...
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... freedom of the city , and made a very fine speech on the occasion . I returned thanks with sincere emotion , and I hope with propriety . What I said was very well received and I was vehemently applauded at the close . At half past two I ...
... freedom of the city , and made a very fine speech on the occasion . I returned thanks with sincere emotion , and I hope with propriety . What I said was very well received and I was vehemently applauded at the close . At half past two I ...
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... freedom , to turn sterile rocks and pestilential marshes into cities and gardens . Enlightened as your founder was , he little knew that he was himself a chief agent in a great revolution , physical and moral , political and religious ...
... freedom , to turn sterile rocks and pestilential marshes into cities and gardens . Enlightened as your founder was , he little knew that he was himself a chief agent in a great revolution , physical and moral , political and religious ...
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