Modern Eloquence, Volume 7Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... American readi- ness of resource , the Yankee good - nature , and the na- tional rectitude . But he was not satisfied with an easy standard . To him the best , not the thriftiest , was most truly American . Lowell held that of all men ...
... American readi- ness of resource , the Yankee good - nature , and the na- tional rectitude . But he was not satisfied with an easy standard . To him the best , not the thriftiest , was most truly American . Lowell held that of all men ...
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... America and believed in the grandeur of American destiny but would find his faith and hope confirmed . To give your best , says the Oriental prov- erb , is to do your utmost . The coming of such a man was the highest honor that America ...
... America and believed in the grandeur of American destiny but would find his faith and hope confirmed . To give your best , says the Oriental prov- erb , is to do your utmost . The coming of such a man was the highest honor that America ...
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... American orator has made so clear and comprehen- sive a declaration of the essential American principle , or so simple a statement of its ethical character . Yet not a word of this republican , to whom Algernon Sidney would have bowed ...
... American orator has made so clear and comprehen- sive a declaration of the essential American principle , or so simple a statement of its ethical character . Yet not a word of this republican , to whom Algernon Sidney would have bowed ...
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