Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... passed the age of play and dreams , and were given over to pressing and exacting work . We are a young nation , but an old people ; and our books , as distinguished from English books , are the products of a mature people in a new world ...
... passed the age of play and dreams , and were given over to pressing and exacting work . We are a young nation , but an old people ; and our books , as distinguished from English books , are the products of a mature people in a new world ...
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... passed that way . It came again and again to Wordsworth during fifteen marvelous years ; and when it passed it left him cold and mechanical . It is the pure spirit of art moving like the wind where it listeth , and , like the wind ...
... passed that way . It came again and again to Wordsworth during fifteen marvelous years ; and when it passed it left him cold and mechanical . It is the pure spirit of art moving like the wind where it listeth , and , like the wind ...
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... passed away , lessons which may be profitable to generations yet unborn . The retrospect is full of interest and instruction . Per- haps it may be doubted whether , since the Christian era , there has been any point of time more ...
... passed away , lessons which may be profitable to generations yet unborn . The retrospect is full of interest and instruction . Per- haps it may be doubted whether , since the Christian era , there has been any point of time more ...
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... passed over his face as he named Bologna and Glasgow together . At Bologna he had long studied . No spot in the world had been more favored by nature or by art . The surrounding country was a fruitful and sunny country , a country of ...
... passed over his face as he named Bologna and Glasgow together . At Bologna he had long studied . No spot in the world had been more favored by nature or by art . The surrounding country was a fruitful and sunny country , a country of ...
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... passed to prevent their evasion . " Besides answering the foregoing questions , the follow- ing additional information was sought - first , on usury ; secondly , on the number of public houses ; thirdly , on the number of persons in the ...
... passed to prevent their evasion . " Besides answering the foregoing questions , the follow- ing additional information was sought - first , on usury ; secondly , on the number of public houses ; thirdly , on the number of persons in the ...
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