Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... ment , and the inferior standards of a people not yet familiar with the best that has been thought and said in the world . To the claims of local pride he opposed the sov- ereign claims of art ; against the practice of the half ...
... ment , and the inferior standards of a people not yet familiar with the best that has been thought and said in the world . To the claims of local pride he opposed the sov- ereign claims of art ; against the practice of the half ...
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... ment of a great destruction and of a great creation . Your society was instituted just before the empire of the East perished ; that strange empire which , dragging on a languid life through the great age of darkness , connected ...
... ment of a great destruction and of a great creation . Your society was instituted just before the empire of the East perished ; that strange empire which , dragging on a languid life through the great age of darkness , connected ...
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... ment . Their love inspired it . Their contributions helped to build it . Past and present share in its completion , and future generations will profit by its lessons . To par- ticipate in the dedication of such a monument is a rare and ...
... ment . Their love inspired it . Their contributions helped to build it . Past and present share in its completion , and future generations will profit by its lessons . To par- ticipate in the dedication of such a monument is a rare and ...
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... ment of a Government which recognizes all the gov- erned . And so , too , will the Nation live victorious over all obstacles , adhering to the immortal principles which Washington taught and Lincoln sustained . AMERICAN PATRIOTISM ...
... ment of a Government which recognizes all the gov- erned . And so , too , will the Nation live victorious over all obstacles , adhering to the immortal principles which Washington taught and Lincoln sustained . AMERICAN PATRIOTISM ...
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... me that every time we erect a new monu- ment to the memory of the Union Soldiers and Sailors , we are cementing the very foundations of the Government itself . We are doing that which will strengthen our AMERICAN PATRIOTISM 851.
... me that every time we erect a new monu- ment to the memory of the Union Soldiers and Sailors , we are cementing the very foundations of the Government itself . We are doing that which will strengthen our AMERICAN PATRIOTISM 851.
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