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Page 840
... beyond the power of human intelligence and energy , developed by civil and
spiritual 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 ...
... beyond the power of human intelligence and energy , developed by civil and
spiritual 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 ...
Page 874
... he , with the rest , testing it over and over in the old slow way with straws , but
provoked once on a time to a fuller test , by turning the hogshead , so they might
sip from the open bung ; and then ( whether out of mischief or mishandling , he
did ...
... he , with the rest , testing it over and over in the old slow way with straws , but
provoked once on a time to a fuller test , by turning the hogshead , so they might
sip from the open bung ; and then ( whether out of mischief or mishandling , he
did ...
Page 877
... apprehensive — the renewed sniff — the pauses for reflection , then the milder
and discursive growls — as if either dog could , if he would - until one or the other
, thinking more wisely of the matter , should turn tail , and trot quietly away .
... apprehensive — the renewed sniff — the pauses for reflection , then the milder
and discursive growls — as if either dog could , if he would - until one or the other
, thinking more wisely of the matter , should turn tail , and trot quietly away .
Page 907
Do not think , I beg of you , that I am speaking rhetorically in saying that when I
think of all this , I feel that the one great thing I desire is that this great country
should shake off from her all foreign and colonial entanglements , and turn that
mighty ...
Do not think , I beg of you , that I am speaking rhetorically in saying that when I
think of all this , I feel that the one great thing I desire is that this great country
should shake off from her all foreign and colonial entanglements , and turn that
mighty ...
Page 908
We must turn this land from the grimy back - yard of a workshop into a garden . If
that seems difficult , or rather impossible , to some of you , I cannot help it ; I only
know that it is necessary . As to its being impossible , I do not believe it . The men
...
We must turn this land from the grimy back - yard of a workshop into a garden . If
that seems difficult , or rather impossible , to some of you , I cannot help it ; I only
know that it is necessary . As to its being impossible , I do not believe it . The men
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Modern Eloquence, Volume 9 Modern Eloquence, Thomas Brackett Reed |
| Editors | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh |
| Publisher | J.D. Morris, 1900 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 31 Jan 2011 |
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