Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 852
... better than that . We are making immortal the principles for which they contended and the union of free men for which they died . [ Applause . ] Their erection may be a matter of comparatively little importance or concern to the Union ...
... better than that . We are making immortal the principles for which they contended and the union of free men for which they died . [ Applause . ] Their erection may be a matter of comparatively little importance or concern to the Union ...
Page 854
... better that I should read what that reso- lution is . It is , " That this meeting , while disclaiming any right or desire to interfere in the internal affairs of an- other country , and desiring that the most amicable rela- tions ...
... better that I should read what that reso- lution is . It is , " That this meeting , while disclaiming any right or desire to interfere in the internal affairs of an- other country , and desiring that the most amicable rela- tions ...
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... better repays the struggle for its mastery ; but Latin literature , if not second- rate , when tried by the loftiest standards , is at least second- ary , being transplanted from Greece , and lacking resolute roots in its own soil . Nor ...
... better repays the struggle for its mastery ; but Latin literature , if not second- rate , when tried by the loftiest standards , is at least second- ary , being transplanted from Greece , and lacking resolute roots in its own soil . Nor ...
Page 863
... better corrective of our inherited tendencies than the French . The chief characteristic of English literature is energy , power often ill - restrained , vigor often superabundant . From the earliest rude war- songs of the stalwart ...
... better corrective of our inherited tendencies than the French . The chief characteristic of English literature is energy , power often ill - restrained , vigor often superabundant . From the earliest rude war- songs of the stalwart ...
Page 864
... better than a dialect of rough islanders . When Chaucer chose his native English as the vehicle of his verse he showed both courage and prescience - a cour- age and a prescience lacking in Bacon , who lived two hun- dred years later ...
... better than a dialect of rough islanders . When Chaucer chose his native English as the vehicle of his verse he showed both courage and prescience - a cour- age and a prescience lacking in Bacon , who lived two hun- dred years later ...
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