How to Develop Power and Personality in SpeakingFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1908 - 422 pages |
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... hope that this book will help many men to realize more fully their highest ideals . In conjunction with this work the author has compiled , in ten small volumes , " The World's Great Sermons , " which will be found useful in solving ...
... hope that this book will help many men to realize more fully their highest ideals . In conjunction with this work the author has compiled , in ten small volumes , " The World's Great Sermons , " which will be found useful in solving ...
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... hope and triumph high , When speaks the signal trumpet tone , And the long line comes gleaming on ; Ere yet the life - blood , warm and wet , Has dimmed the glistening bayonet , Each soldier eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky ...
... hope and triumph high , When speaks the signal trumpet tone , And the long line comes gleaming on ; Ere yet the life - blood , warm and wet , Has dimmed the glistening bayonet , Each soldier eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky ...
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... hope and home , By angel hands to valor given ; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome , And all thy hues were born in heaven . For ever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us , With Freedom's soil beneath ...
... hope and home , By angel hands to valor given ; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome , And all thy hues were born in heaven . For ever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us , With Freedom's soil beneath ...
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... hope the secretary of the Senate will preserve the pen with which he may inscribe them , and present it to that Senator of the majority whom he may select , as a proud trophy , to be transmitted to his descendants . And hereafter , when ...
... hope the secretary of the Senate will preserve the pen with which he may inscribe them , and present it to that Senator of the majority whom he may select , as a proud trophy , to be transmitted to his descendants . And hereafter , when ...
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... hope of better things to be won , and to be bestowed . There is no old age where there is still that promise . Thus , then , you have first to mold her physical frame , and then as the strength she gains will permit you , to fill and ...
... hope of better things to be won , and to be bestowed . There is no old age where there is still that promise . Thus , then , you have first to mold her physical frame , and then as the strength she gains will permit you , to fill and ...
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Page 417 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 378 - THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 109 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Page 26 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 109 - Love thyself last : cherish those hearts that hate thee : Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues : be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's...
Page 369 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Page 47 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Page 398 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 415 - WHEN all Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys ; Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love and praise.
Page 389 - THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit ? ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?