Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 935
... souls , necessarily seemed a tribunal of the smallest possible account . To- day the " American Empire , " as Marshall himself was the first to call it , with its immense territory and its 75,000,000 of people , is a negligible factor ...
... souls , necessarily seemed a tribunal of the smallest possible account . To- day the " American Empire , " as Marshall himself was the first to call it , with its immense territory and its 75,000,000 of people , is a negligible factor ...
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... soul finding there its purest expression , still untroubled by the naturalism , the intel- lectualism , the antique paganism , then astir in the artistic soul everywhere else in Italy . The lovely work of Peru- gino , very lovely , at ...
... soul finding there its purest expression , still untroubled by the naturalism , the intel- lectualism , the antique paganism , then astir in the artistic soul everywhere else in Italy . The lovely work of Peru- gino , very lovely , at ...
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... soul this bible of the rights of man . Nor Hancock and Jefferson , Adams and Mason , Otis and- Henry , united those two colonies that , more than any others , gave impulse to American thought and speech and action . There was Bunker ...
... soul this bible of the rights of man . Nor Hancock and Jefferson , Adams and Mason , Otis and- Henry , united those two colonies that , more than any others , gave impulse to American thought and speech and action . There was Bunker ...
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... soul . This is the age in which we live ; this is the century that called into life that great humanitarian movement which we denominate Odd - Fellowship . It is the child of Ameri- can spirit and life ; it is a creation designed for ...
... soul . This is the age in which we live ; this is the century that called into life that great humanitarian movement which we denominate Odd - Fellowship . It is the child of Ameri- can spirit and life ; it is a creation designed for ...
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... souls within its fond embrace . The streams of its unos- tentatious charity have flowed to every corner of our land ; its white banner has led the march of fraternal life . To- day we salute our comrades across the seas ; our flag is ...
... souls within its fond embrace . The streams of its unos- tentatious charity have flowed to every corner of our land ; its white banner has led the march of fraternal life . To- day we salute our comrades across the seas ; our flag is ...
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Ameri American army artist battle beauty born Burns called CARL SCHURZ century Chief Justice civilization Constitution Court culture Cuyahoga County divine earth element England English eyes fact faith feel flag Francis Scott Key freedom French genius give HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE hand heart heaven honor hope human idea ideal imagination intellect Jews knowledge land learned LEW WALLACE liberty light literature live look Marshall memory ment mind moral nation nature never novel passed patriotism peace perfection person Perugia philosophical Pinturicchio Poe's poet political Potiphar President race Raphael religion religious Republic Robert Charles Winthrop Robert Louis Stevenson seems Shakespeare soldiers soul speak spirit stand Star-Spangled Banner Taney things thought tion to-day touch true truth ture University Washington whole WILLIAM MCKINLEY words
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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.