Modern Eloquence, Volume 3Thomas Brackett Reed G.L. Shuman & Company, 1901 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 41
Page 864
... century , facing the new century , it is impossible that one should not look back , and equally impossible that one should not look forward . We are just at the close of what we call , and call rightly , a century of great achievements ...
... century , facing the new century , it is impossible that one should not look back , and equally impossible that one should not look forward . We are just at the close of what we call , and call rightly , a century of great achievements ...
Page 1004
... century . Then you will realize that the Sirdar and his troops were fighting the battle of righteousness as truly as ever it was fought by your ances- tors and mine two or three or four centuries ago . I think you can now understand ...
... century . Then you will realize that the Sirdar and his troops were fighting the battle of righteousness as truly as ever it was fought by your ances- tors and mine two or three or four centuries ago . I think you can now understand ...
Page 1060
... century was the century of confiscation ; the sixth was a century of penal laws - penal laws , which , he says , " we cannot defend and which we must condemn and wash our hands of the whole proceedings " -a century of penal laws ...
... century was the century of confiscation ; the sixth was a century of penal laws - penal laws , which , he says , " we cannot defend and which we must condemn and wash our hands of the whole proceedings " -a century of penal laws ...
Contents
VOLUME III | 859 |
PALMER GEORGE M | 871 |
PALMERSTON LORD HENRY JOHN TEMPLE | 876 |
41 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American annual dinner ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE army Arthur Sullivan banquet battle beautiful believe better blood called century character Cheers citizen civilization December 22 distinguished Dutch Dutchman duty earth eloquence enemy England Society English fact feel fight Forefathers French gentlemen guest hand Hear heart Henry Watterson Holland honor Horace Porter human John land Laughter and applause lawyer learned liberty live look Lord Lord Rosebery Loud Mayflower mind nation never peace Photogravure Pilgrim Fathers plause Plymouth Rock politics present President principles pulpit Puritan race remember seems sentiment side Sir Frederic Leighton Sirdar soldier South speak spirit stand tell thing thought tion to-day to-night toast told true truth victory Virginia virtue Wall Street wealth Whitelaw Reid William the Silent woman words Yankee York