Modern Eloquence, Volume 7Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 72
... Nature's self , Her features , could they win us , Unhelped by the poetic voice That hourly speaks within us ? " The Indian mother on the borders of Hudson's Bay decorates her manufactures with ingenious devices and lovely colors ...
... Nature's self , Her features , could they win us , Unhelped by the poetic voice That hourly speaks within us ? " The Indian mother on the borders of Hudson's Bay decorates her manufactures with ingenious devices and lovely colors ...
Page 141
... nature , true and fresh and new , there was another nature , false and effete and old . The one nature found itself in a new world , and set itself to discover the new ways for the new duties that were given it . The other nature , full ...
... nature , true and fresh and new , there was another nature , false and effete and old . The one nature found itself in a new world , and set itself to discover the new ways for the new duties that were given it . The other nature , full ...
Page 209
... nature . But the narrow spirit in which they often do this cuts down their influence to parish limits . I mean rather those men who in private life act out their thoughts and feelings as to the unity of human life ; those same thoughts ...
... nature . But the narrow spirit in which they often do this cuts down their influence to parish limits . I mean rather those men who in private life act out their thoughts and feelings as to the unity of human life ; those same thoughts ...
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