Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Volume 20Mayo Williamson Hazeltine P. F. Collier & Son, 1905 - 11114 pages |
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Page 8329
... interest and desire to learn it ; but one is reduced to guessing , and cannot be quite sure that after all one has guessed right . He is not plain and concrete enough , — in other words , not poet enough , - to be able to tell us . And ...
... interest and desire to learn it ; but one is reduced to guessing , and cannot be quite sure that after all one has guessed right . He is not plain and concrete enough , — in other words , not poet enough , - to be able to tell us . And ...
Page 8334
... interest ; but his literary talent is of the first order , the finest , I think , which America has yet pro- duced , finer , by much , than Emerson's . Yet " Our Old Home " is not a masterpiece any more than " English Traits . " In ...
... interest ; but his literary talent is of the first order , the finest , I think , which America has yet pro- duced , finer , by much , than Emerson's . Yet " Our Old Home " is not a masterpiece any more than " English Traits . " In ...
Page 8351
... interest of the citizens was withdrawn from serious things . Conversation became more and more superficial and frivolous . Famous courtesans formed the chief topic of talk ; the new inventions of Thea- rion , the leading pastry - cook ...
... interest of the citizens was withdrawn from serious things . Conversation became more and more superficial and frivolous . Famous courtesans formed the chief topic of talk ; the new inventions of Thea- rion , the leading pastry - cook ...
Page 8372
... interest of its history , and which seems moreover just now , from all I can see and hear , to be passing through a not very happy moment , morally , in Germany proper . Yet of the German stock it is , I think , true , as my father said ...
... interest of its history , and which seems moreover just now , from all I can see and hear , to be passing through a not very happy moment , morally , in Germany proper . Yet of the German stock it is , I think , true , as my father said ...
Page 8379
... interests of our country , will aid us in the work . For we believe that the great necessity of this hour is that higher education in which this people shall know God's . work with man . We hope that the Forefathers ' societies , the ...
... interests of our country , will aid us in the work . For we believe that the great necessity of this hour is that higher education in which this people shall know God's . work with man . We hope that the Forefathers ' societies , the ...
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Page 8661 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 8751 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 8361 - Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
Page 8328 - THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — • " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Page 8573 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
Page 8555 - We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, ' that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed...
Page 8337 - Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and. if we will tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best.
Page 8347 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Page 8507 - Under this article of the constitution it rests with congress to decide what government is the established one in a State. For as the United States guarantee to each State a republican government, congress must necessarily decide what government is established in the State before it can determine whether it is republican or not.
Page 8422 - On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life, yielding to partial and temporary departures from necessity.