Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 911
... turn , indeed , to the particular kinds of intellectual perfection , words are forthcoming for our purpose , as , for instance , judgment , taste , and skill ; yet even these belong , for the most part , to powers or habits bearing upon ...
... turn , indeed , to the particular kinds of intellectual perfection , words are forthcoming for our purpose , as , for instance , judgment , taste , and skill ; yet even these belong , for the most part , to powers or habits bearing upon ...
Page 918
... turning to God , looking into themselves , regulating their hearts , reforming their conduct , and meditating on death and judgment , heaven and hell , they seem to become , in point of intellect , different beings from what they were ...
... turning to God , looking into themselves , regulating their hearts , reforming their conduct , and meditating on death and judgment , heaven and hell , they seem to become , in point of intellect , different beings from what they were ...
Page 920
... has a history or a promise . Every- thing stands by itself , and comes and goes in its turn , like the shifting scenes of a show , which leave the spectator where he was . Perhaps you are near such a 920 JOHN HENRY , CARDINAL NEWMAN.
... has a history or a promise . Every- thing stands by itself , and comes and goes in its turn , like the shifting scenes of a show , which leave the spectator where he was . Perhaps you are near such a 920 JOHN HENRY , CARDINAL NEWMAN.
Page 959
... turn abused its authority , it passed to the Parliament chosen by the people . And when at last the founders of our Constitution , driven to revolution by Parliamentary oppression , had learned that even representative govern- ment ...
... turn abused its authority , it passed to the Parliament chosen by the people . And when at last the founders of our Constitution , driven to revolution by Parliamentary oppression , had learned that even representative govern- ment ...
Page 972
... turn from the contempla- tion of the Cæsars and Napoleons of the human race to meditate upon the character of Lafayette ! We feel proud that we belong to the same species ; we feel proud that we live in the same age ; and we feel still ...
... turn from the contempla- tion of the Cæsars and Napoleons of the human race to meditate upon the character of Lafayette ! We feel proud that we belong to the same species ; we feel proud that we live in the same age ; and we feel still ...
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