Modern Eloquence, Volume 2Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... Dutch blood a certain deficiency of imagination . Can you imagine a Scotsman , however matter - of - fact and commonplace , offering such a definition of his native land ? The land of brown heath and shaggy wood , land of the mountain ...
... Dutch blood a certain deficiency of imagination . Can you imagine a Scotsman , however matter - of - fact and commonplace , offering such a definition of his native land ? The land of brown heath and shaggy wood , land of the mountain ...
Page 783
... Dutch ministry , and after enjoying for a second time the hospitality of this honor- able Society , I know nowhere where a Scotchman can feel himself so at home as in the genial influences of Dutch cus- tom and Dutch tradition ...
... Dutch ministry , and after enjoying for a second time the hospitality of this honor- able Society , I know nowhere where a Scotchman can feel himself so at home as in the genial influences of Dutch cus- tom and Dutch tradition ...
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... Dutch minister I trace the har- monious presence of two elements not often found in one personality . On the one hand there was a rigid adherence to his own church and creed , so that to the orthodox Dutch mind , whatever may happen ...
... Dutch minister I trace the har- monious presence of two elements not often found in one personality . On the one hand there was a rigid adherence to his own church and creed , so that to the orthodox Dutch mind , whatever may happen ...
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