Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 857
... England ? For uprightness , for refinement , for generosity , for charity , for all the graces and virtues that adorn humanity , where will be found examples brighter or more true of human excel- lence than in this Hebrew race ? And ...
... England ? For uprightness , for refinement , for generosity , for charity , for all the graces and virtues that adorn humanity , where will be found examples brighter or more true of human excel- lence than in this Hebrew race ? And ...
Page 859
... England are of yesterday compared with the im- perishable people which , with an inextinguishable life and immutable traditions , and faith in God and in the laws of God , scattered as it is all over the world , passing through the ...
... England are of yesterday compared with the im- perishable people which , with an inextinguishable life and immutable traditions , and faith in God and in the laws of God , scattered as it is all over the world , passing through the ...
Page 864
... England . Not only in England , Ireland , and Scotland is English spoken , and in all the many British colonies which encompass the globe about ; it is also the native speech of the people of the United States . English is the language ...
... England . Not only in England , Ireland , and Scotland is English spoken , and in all the many British colonies which encompass the globe about ; it is also the native speech of the people of the United States . English is the language ...
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... England at the mid- dle of this century . But much as we admire these British authors , much as we respect them , I do not think that they are as close to us as the authors of our own country ; we do not cherish them with the same ...
... England at the mid- dle of this century . But much as we admire these British authors , much as we respect them , I do not think that they are as close to us as the authors of our own country ; we do not cherish them with the same ...
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... England ? It may be true that as we read some of those earlier books of his we shall come upon some truisms which in these fast - paced times may chafe us - some rhetorical fur- belows or broidery that belong to the wardrobes of the ...
... England ? It may be true that as we read some of those earlier books of his we shall come upon some truisms which in these fast - paced times may chafe us - some rhetorical fur- belows or broidery that belong to the wardrobes of the ...
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