Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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... civilization ? I am afraid whatever answer I may make to that ques- tion will disappoint you . I myself suffer so sorely from the lack above mentioned that I have little remedy in myself save that of fostering discontent . I have no in ...
... civilization ? I am afraid whatever answer I may make to that ques- tion will disappoint you . I myself suffer so sorely from the lack above mentioned that I have little remedy in myself save that of fostering discontent . I have no in ...
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... civilization ? of a civilization that is too apt to boast in after - dinner speeches ; too apt to thrust her blessings on far - off peoples at the cannon's mouth before she has improved the quality of those blessings so far that they ...
... civilization ? of a civilization that is too apt to boast in after - dinner speeches ; too apt to thrust her blessings on far - off peoples at the cannon's mouth before she has improved the quality of those blessings so far that they ...
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... civilization is a delusion and a lie ; there is no such thing and no hope of such a thing . But since I wish to live , and even to be happy , I cannot believe it impossible . I know by my own feelings and desires what these men want ...
... civilization is a delusion and a lie ; there is no such thing and no hope of such a thing . But since I wish to live , and even to be happy , I cannot believe it impossible . I know by my own feelings and desires what these men want ...
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... civilization , but to human nature . I have seen no statistics of the size of these blotches in relation to the unspoiled , or partially spoiled , country , but in some places they run together so as to cover a whole county , or even ...
... civilization , but to human nature . I have seen no statistics of the size of these blotches in relation to the unspoiled , or partially spoiled , country , but in some places they run together so as to cover a whole county , or even ...
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... civilization they have brought forth has been as transient as themselves . Neither government nor civilization contained any ele- ment of permanence , until they came to be founded upon 959 the principles of civil and religious liberty ...
... civilization they have brought forth has been as transient as themselves . Neither government nor civilization contained any ele- ment of permanence , until they came to be founded upon 959 the principles of civil and religious liberty ...
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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.