Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 822
... look from under its iron lids and fulfill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill . Our day of dependence , our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands , draws to a ...
... look from under its iron lids and fulfill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill . Our day of dependence , our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands , draws to a ...
Page 829
... looks out upon the world of which it dreams so gloriously , but which it sees so rarely ; and we are not prone to mete out with mathematical exactness our praise of those who set us free . If we lose our heads for a time when Kipling ...
... looks out upon the world of which it dreams so gloriously , but which it sees so rarely ; and we are not prone to mete out with mathematical exactness our praise of those who set us free . If we lose our heads for a time when Kipling ...
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... Look at the world , then , a hundred years after the seal of Nicholas had been affixed to the instrument which called your col- lege into existence . We find Europe , we find Scotland especially , in the agonies of that great revolution ...
... Look at the world , then , a hundred years after the seal of Nicholas had been affixed to the instrument which called your col- lege into existence . We find Europe , we find Scotland especially , in the agonies of that great revolution ...
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... look upon it with a twofold feeling - in the first place with horror as tending to disintegrate the foun- dations of social life , and , secondly , with great fear lest it may light up an animosity , which has already taken flame in ...
... look upon it with a twofold feeling - in the first place with horror as tending to disintegrate the foun- dations of social life , and , secondly , with great fear lest it may light up an animosity , which has already taken flame in ...
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... look very hopefully to what may be the effect of this meeting . Do not let us overrate it . If we believe that this meeting will have done the work , and that we may cease to speak , its effect will not be what we desire . Let us not ...
... look very hopefully to what may be the effect of this meeting . Do not let us overrate it . If we believe that this meeting will have done the work , and that we may cease to speak , its effect will not be what we desire . Let us not ...
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