Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... BURNS [ Address of ' Archibald Philip Primrose , Earl of Rosebery , states- man , orator , British Prime Minister ... Burns Centenary celebration at Dumfries , Scotland . ] I cannot perhaps deny that to - day has been a labor , but it ...
... BURNS [ Address of ' Archibald Philip Primrose , Earl of Rosebery , states- man , orator , British Prime Minister ... Burns Centenary celebration at Dumfries , Scotland . ] I cannot perhaps deny that to - day has been a labor , but it ...
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... Burns , Wellington and Napoleon , and among these Titans Burns is a con- spicuous figure a figure which appeals most of all to the imagination and affection of mankind . Napoleon looms larger to the imagination , but on the affection he ...
... Burns , Wellington and Napoleon , and among these Titans Burns is a con- spicuous figure a figure which appeals most of all to the imagination and affection of mankind . Napoleon looms larger to the imagination , but on the affection he ...
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... Burns This is not the place or the time to speak of the miracle called Shake- speare , but one must say a word of the miracle called Burns . Try and reconstruct Burns as he was a peasant born in a cottage that no sanitary inspector in ...
... Burns This is not the place or the time to speak of the miracle called Shake- speare , but one must say a word of the miracle called Burns . Try and reconstruct Burns as he was a peasant born in a cottage that no sanitary inspector in ...
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... Burns by his poetry alone , but as to the mag- netism of his presence and conversation there is only one verdict . " No man's conversation every carried me so completely off my feet , " said the Duchess of Gordon , the friend of Pitt ...
... Burns by his poetry alone , but as to the mag- netism of his presence and conversation there is only one verdict . " No man's conversation every carried me so completely off my feet , " said the Duchess of Gordon , the friend of Pitt ...
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... Burns , " he told me when he was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks , that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave pleasure to his mind , which none could understand who did not witness , like himself , the ...
... Burns , " he told me when he was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks , that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave pleasure to his mind , which none could understand who did not witness , like himself , the ...
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