Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 840
... 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 , in a ...
... 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 , in a ...
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... turning the hogshead , so they might sip from the open bung ; and then ( whether out of mischief or mishandling , he did ... turn . You may judge if Mr. Irving did not put a nice touch to that story ! After this memorable autumn drive ...
... turning the hogshead , so they might sip from the open bung ; and then ( whether out of mischief or mishandling , he did ... turn . You may judge if Mr. Irving did not put a nice touch to that story ! After this memorable autumn drive ...
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... turn tail , and trot quietly away . I trust I do not seem to vulgarize the occasion in bring- ing to view these little traits which set before us the man : as I have already said , we cannot honor him more than by recalling him in his ...
... turn tail , and trot quietly away . I trust I do not seem to vulgarize the occasion in bring- ing to view these little traits which set before us the man : as I have already said , we cannot honor him more than by recalling him in his ...
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... turn that mighty force of her respectable people , the greatest power the world has ever seen , to giving the children of these poor folk the pleasures and the hopes of men . Is that really impossible ? is there no hope of it ? If so ...
... turn that mighty force of her respectable people , the greatest power the world has ever seen , to giving the children of these poor folk the pleasures and the hopes of men . Is that really impossible ? is there no hope of it ? If so ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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