Modern Eloquence, Volume 7Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... light interspersed to fill a winter's programme . Sometimes , also , the exigencies of a politi- cal campaign would bring to the larger cities an orator like Lincoln , whose speech had something more than a political interest . Such a ...
... light interspersed to fill a winter's programme . Sometimes , also , the exigencies of a politi- cal campaign would bring to the larger cities an orator like Lincoln , whose speech had something more than a political interest . Such a ...
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... light . The path on which he walks would still be a track of light , amid the obscurities . But , in reality , this assumption is perfectly groundless . Can there be a rational principle in you , and not also in the universe of which ...
... light . The path on which he walks would still be a track of light , amid the obscurities . But , in reality , this assumption is perfectly groundless . Can there be a rational principle in you , and not also in the universe of which ...
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... light is in all men the same . Just so , judgment may be liable in individual minds to bias and passion , and yet its relation to truth is immutable and universal . In questions of practical duty conscience is God's um- pire whose light ...
... light is in all men the same . Just so , judgment may be liable in individual minds to bias and passion , and yet its relation to truth is immutable and universal . In questions of practical duty conscience is God's um- pire whose light ...
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