Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 838
... University commenced . It was at the mo- ment of a great destruction and of a great creation . Your society was instituted just before the empire of the East perished ; that strange empire which , dragging on a languid life through the ...
... University commenced . It was at the mo- ment of a great destruction and of a great creation . Your society was instituted just before the empire of the East perished ; that strange empire which , dragging on a languid life through the ...
Page 839
... the plan of establishing a University at Glasgow , and bestowed on the new seat of learning all the privileges which belonged to the Univer- sity of Bologna . I can conceive that a pitying A SURVEY OF FOUR CENTURIES 839.
... the plan of establishing a University at Glasgow , and bestowed on the new seat of learning all the privileges which belonged to the Univer- sity of Bologna . I can conceive that a pitying A SURVEY OF FOUR CENTURIES 839.
Page 841
... University I need hardly mention the names of Knox , of Buchanan , of Melville , of Secretary Mait- land . In truth , minds daily nourished with the best litera- ture of Greece and Rome necessarily grew too strong to be trammeled by the ...
... University I need hardly mention the names of Knox , of Buchanan , of Melville , of Secretary Mait- land . In truth , minds daily nourished with the best litera- ture of Greece and Rome necessarily grew too strong to be trammeled by the ...
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... University completed her second century . A hundred years more ; and we have at length reached the beginning of a happier period . Our civil and religious liberties had indeed been bought with a fearful price . But they had been bought ...
... University completed her second century . A hundred years more ; and we have at length reached the beginning of a happier period . Our civil and religious liberties had indeed been bought with a fearful price . But they had been bought ...
Page 843
... University of Glasgow need not fear a comparison with the University of Bologna . A fifth secular period is about to commence . There is no lack of alarmists who will tell you that it is about to commence under evil auspices . But from ...
... University of Glasgow need not fear a comparison with the University of Bologna . A fifth secular period is about to commence . There is no lack of alarmists who will tell you that it is about to commence under evil auspices . But from ...
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