Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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... Address by Thomas Babington Macaulay , statesman , historian , es- sayist , poet ( born in Rothley Temple , Leicestershire , October 25 , 1800 ; died in Kensington , December 28 , 1859 ) , delivered before the Univer- sity of Glasgow ...
... Address by Thomas Babington Macaulay , statesman , historian , es- sayist , poet ( born in Rothley Temple , Leicestershire , October 25 , 1800 ; died in Kensington , December 28 , 1859 ) , delivered before the Univer- sity of Glasgow ...
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Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh. stil mort dorotorld Draft Trungotor MITTEIN WICKIATEA WILLIAM MCKINLEY CHARACTERISTICS OF WASHINGTON [ Address by William McKinley.
Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh. stil mort dorotorld Draft Trungotor MITTEIN WICKIATEA WILLIAM MCKINLEY CHARACTERISTICS OF WASHINGTON [ Address by William McKinley.
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... Address by William McKinley , twenty - fourth President of the United States ( born in Niles , O. , January 29 , 1843 ; died in Buffalo , N. Y. , September 14 , 1901 ) , delivered at the unveiling of the Wash- ington Statue , by the ...
... Address by William McKinley , twenty - fourth President of the United States ( born in Niles , O. , January 29 , 1843 ; died in Buffalo , N. Y. , September 14 , 1901 ) , delivered at the unveiling of the Wash- ington Statue , by the ...
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... Address by William McKinley , delivered at the dedication of the Cuyahoga County Soldiers ' and Sailors ' Monument at Cleveland , O. , July 4 , 1894. Mayor Robert Blee , Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements , introduced Mr ...
... Address by William McKinley , delivered at the dedication of the Cuyahoga County Soldiers ' and Sailors ' Monument at Cleveland , O. , July 4 , 1894. Mayor Robert Blee , Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements , introduced Mr ...
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... address of welcome . General J. W. Fitch , remembered by the older citizens of Cleveland , was the Grand Marshal of the day ; and General Barnett , whose distinguished services in the war are yet fresh in the memory of the people , and ...
... address of welcome . General J. W. Fitch , remembered by the older citizens of Cleveland , was the Grand Marshal of the day ; and General Barnett , whose distinguished services in the war are yet fresh in the memory of the people , and ...
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Ameri American army artist battle beauty born Burns called CARL SCHURZ century Chief Justice civilization Constitution Court culture Cuyahoga County divine earth element England English eyes fact faith feel flag Francis Scott Key freedom French genius give HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE hand heart heaven honor hope human idea ideal imagination intellect Jews knowledge land learned LEW WALLACE liberty light literature live look Marshall memory ment mind moral nation nature never novel passed patriotism peace perfection person Perugia philosophical Pinturicchio Poe's poet political Potiphar President race Raphael religion religious Republic Robert Charles Winthrop Robert Louis Stevenson seems Shakespeare soldiers soul speak spirit stand Star-Spangled Banner Taney things thought tion to-day touch true truth ture University Washington whole WILLIAM MCKINLEY words
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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.