Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... better than the exertions of mechanical skill . Our day of dependence , our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands , draws to a close . The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere ...
... better than the exertions of mechanical skill . Our day of dependence , our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands , draws to a close . The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere ...
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... better employ a few minutes than in reviewing the stages of this great change in human affairs . The review shall be short . Indeed I cannot do better than pass rapidly from century to century . Look at the world , then , a hundred ...
... better employ a few minutes than in reviewing the stages of this great change in human affairs . The review shall be short . Indeed I cannot do better than pass rapidly from century to century . Look at the world , then , a hundred ...
Page 842
... better fitted to excite this feeling than the place where we are now assembled . For in the whole kingdom we shall find no district in which the progress of trade , of manufactures , of wealth , and of the arts of life , has been more ...
... better fitted to excite this feeling than the place where we are now assembled . For in the whole kingdom we shall find no district in which the progress of trade , of manufactures , of wealth , and of the arts of life , has been more ...
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... better citizenship . God bless every undertaking which revives patriotism and rebukes . the indifferent and lawless ! A critical study of Washing- ton's career only enhances our estimation of his vast and varied abilities . As Commander ...
... better citizenship . God bless every undertaking which revives patriotism and rebukes . the indifferent and lawless ! A critical study of Washing- ton's career only enhances our estimation of his vast and varied abilities . As Commander ...
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... better calculated to sustain his courage or strengthen his faith in the mighty work before him ? Thus com- manded , thus assured , Mr. Lincoln journeyed to the capi- tal , where he took the oath of office and registered in heaven an ...
... better calculated to sustain his courage or strengthen his faith in the mighty work before him ? Thus com- manded , thus assured , Mr. Lincoln journeyed to the capi- tal , where he took the oath of office and registered in heaven an ...
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