Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 828
... race among which the perfect work was born . This passion , which is always striving to realize its own imperishableness in the perfection of its work , and to con- tinue unbroken the record of creative activity among men , possessed ...
... race among which the perfect work was born . This passion , which is always striving to realize its own imperishableness in the perfection of its work , and to con- tinue unbroken the record of creative activity among men , possessed ...
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... race on this continent . To go so far as Poe went toward perfec- tion of form is to exclude from the contest all save the fleetest and the strongest . It is to do more , for the service of the artist really begins when his work is com ...
... race on this continent . To go so far as Poe went toward perfec- tion of form is to exclude from the contest all save the fleetest and the strongest . It is to do more , for the service of the artist really begins when his work is com ...
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... race by giving life a dignity and splendor which constitute a com- mon capital for all who live . The respect paid to men like Washington and Lincoln , Marshall and Lee , Poe and Hawthorne , affords a true measure of civilization in a ...
... race by giving life a dignity and splendor which constitute a com- mon capital for all who live . The respect paid to men like Washington and Lincoln , Marshall and Lee , Poe and Hawthorne , affords a true measure of civilization in a ...
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... race . So that it does seem to me that every time we erect a new monu- ment to the memory of the Union Soldiers and Sailors , we are cementing the very foundations of the Government itself . We are doing that which will strengthen our ...
... race . So that it does seem to me that every time we erect a new monu- ment to the memory of the Union Soldiers and Sailors , we are cementing the very foundations of the Government itself . We are doing that which will strengthen our ...
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... race ? And when we are told that the accounts of those atrocities are not to be trusted , I ask if there were to appear in the newspapers long and minute narratives of murder , rapine , and other atrocities round about the Egyptian hall ...
... race ? And when we are told that the accounts of those atrocities are not to be trusted , I ask if there were to appear in the newspapers long and minute narratives of murder , rapine , and other atrocities round about the Egyptian hall ...
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