Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 844
... young friends who now hear me ; and he will , I also hope , be able to add that their talents and learning were not wasted on selfish or ignoble objects , but were employed to promote the physical and moral good of their species , to ...
... young friends who now hear me ; and he will , I also hope , be able to add that their talents and learning were not wasted on selfish or ignoble objects , but were employed to promote the physical and moral good of their species , to ...
Page 852
... young men and the young women from whom the Republic must draw her future defenders . Every time we erect a monument , every time we do honor to the Soldiers of the Republic , we reaffirm our devotion to the country , to the glorious ...
... young men and the young women from whom the Republic must draw her future defenders . Every time we erect a monument , every time we do honor to the Soldiers of the Republic , we reaffirm our devotion to the country , to the glorious ...
Page 862
... young . After two thousand years and more it strikes us to - day as startlingly modern . Thoreau - whose own phrase was often Attic in its deli- cate precision - Thoreau asked : " What are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts ...
... young . After two thousand years and more it strikes us to - day as startlingly modern . Thoreau - whose own phrase was often Attic in its deli- cate precision - Thoreau asked : " What are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts ...
Page 875
... young peo- ple , without the fear of the critics before their eyes , keep on , persistently reading that old " Sketch Book , " with its " Broken Hearts , " and " Wife " twining like a vine , and " Spectre Bridegroom , " and all the rest ...
... young peo- ple , without the fear of the critics before their eyes , keep on , persistently reading that old " Sketch Book , " with its " Broken Hearts , " and " Wife " twining like a vine , and " Spectre Bridegroom , " and all the rest ...
Page 876
... , and an eye always alert ; not a fair young face dashing past us in its drapery of muslin but his eye drank in all its freshness and beauty with the keen appetite and the grateful admiration of a 876 DONALD GRANT MITCHELL.
... , and an eye always alert ; not a fair young face dashing past us in its drapery of muslin but his eye drank in all its freshness and beauty with the keen appetite and the grateful admiration of a 876 DONALD GRANT MITCHELL.
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