Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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... and the Beauty of the Earth 891 NEWMAN , JOHN HENRY , CARDINAL Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Learning · 911 OLNEY , RICHARD John Marshall 932 PATER , WALTER Raphael 949 PAGE PHELPS , EDWARD JOHN PINKERTON , ALFRED S. The.
... and the Beauty of the Earth 891 NEWMAN , JOHN HENRY , CARDINAL Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Learning · 911 OLNEY , RICHARD John Marshall 932 PATER , WALTER Raphael 949 PAGE PHELPS , EDWARD JOHN PINKERTON , ALFRED S. The.
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... earth . The turmoil of the struggle for existence in Greece has long since died into the all - devouring silence , but that broken figure remains to thrill and inspire a world which has forgotten the name of the man who breathed the ...
... earth . The turmoil of the struggle for existence in Greece has long since died into the all - devouring silence , but that broken figure remains to thrill and inspire a world which has forgotten the name of the man who breathed the ...
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... earth . The Nation and the name of Washington are insepa- rable . One is linked indissolubly with the other . Both are glorious , both triumphant . Washington lives and will live because what he did was for the exaltation of man , the ...
... earth . The Nation and the name of Washington are insepa- rable . One is linked indissolubly with the other . Both are glorious , both triumphant . Washington lives and will live because what he did was for the exaltation of man , the ...
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... earth . That is what this monument means . That is the lesson of true patriotism ; that what was won in war shall be worn in peace . But we must not forget , my fellow countrymen , that the Union which these brave men preserved , and ...
... earth . That is what this monument means . That is the lesson of true patriotism ; that what was won in war shall be worn in peace . But we must not forget , my fellow countrymen , that the Union which these brave men preserved , and ...
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... earth . Our strength rests in our patriotism . An- archy flees before patriotism . Peace and order and secu- rity and liberty are safe so long as love of country burns in the hearts of the people . It should not be forgotten , however ...
... earth . Our strength rests in our patriotism . An- archy flees before patriotism . Peace and order and secu- rity and liberty are safe so long as love of country burns in the hearts of the people . It should not be forgotten , however ...
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Page 1038 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 1112 - With the help of your good hands. Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant ; And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer ; Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults.
Page 1138 - The laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed; And close as sin and suffering joined We march to fate abreast.
Page 1148 - Oh say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Page 1138 - South, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race, "Cast down your bucket where you are".
Page 922 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Page 1079 - That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Page 1064 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Page 1138 - ... of yours, interlacing our industrial, commercial, civil, and religious life with yours in a way that shall make the interests of both races one. In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Page 1137 - Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in the professions. And in this con nection it is well to bear in mind that whatever other sins the South may be called to bear, when it comes to business, pure and simple, it is in the South that the Negro is given a man's chance in the commercial world, and in nothing is this Exposition more eloquent than in emphasizing this chance.