Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 831
... his genius . It is hardly pos- sible to miss the significance of the fact that two men of such temper and gifts as Hawthorne and Poe were driven by inward necessity to deal with the life of an POE'S PLACE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE 831.
... his genius . It is hardly pos- sible to miss the significance of the fact that two men of such temper and gifts as Hawthorne and Poe were driven by inward necessity to deal with the life of an POE'S PLACE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE 831.
Page 832
... fact throws a penetrating light on the delicacy of the adjustments between a genius of great sensitiveness and its environment , and sets at naught the judgment , so often and so hastily reached , that the American mind is essentially ...
... fact throws a penetrating light on the delicacy of the adjustments between a genius of great sensitiveness and its environment , and sets at naught the judgment , so often and so hastily reached , that the American mind is essentially ...
Page 841
... fact , the vanguard of that movement . Every one of the chief Reformers - I do not at this moment remember a single exception - was a Humanist . Almost every emi- nent Humanist in the north of Europe was , according to the measure of ...
... fact , the vanguard of that movement . Every one of the chief Reformers - I do not at this moment remember a single exception - was a Humanist . Almost every emi- nent Humanist in the north of Europe was , according to the measure of ...
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... fact - and one which I love to recall - is that the only time Washington formally addressed the Constitutional Convention during all its sessions over which he presided in this city , he appealed for a larger representation of the ...
... fact - and one which I love to recall - is that the only time Washington formally addressed the Constitutional Convention during all its sessions over which he presided in this city , he appealed for a larger representation of the ...
Page 867
... fact that the population of these United States is now nearly twice as large as the population of the British Isles , and not inferior in ability or in energy . But it is a fact also that in America a smaller proportion of the ability ...
... fact that the population of these United States is now nearly twice as large as the population of the British Isles , and not inferior in ability or in energy . But it is a fact also that in America a smaller proportion of the ability ...
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