Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Band 20Mayo Williamson Hazeltine P. F. Collier & Son, 1905 - 11114 Seiten |
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... human life in " Wilhelm Meister , " how novel it was to the Englishman in those days ! and it was salutary , too , and educative for him , doubtless , as well as novel . But what moved us most in " Wilhelm Meister was that which , after ...
... human life in " Wilhelm Meister , " how novel it was to the Englishman in those days ! and it was salutary , too , and educative for him , doubtless , as well as novel . But what moved us most in " Wilhelm Meister was that which , after ...
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... human life , - of writers like Montaigne , La Bruyère , Addison , —the “ Eng- lish Traits " will not stand the comparison . Emerson's obser- vation has not the disinterested quality of the observation of these masters . It is the ...
... human life , - of writers like Montaigne , La Bruyère , Addison , —the “ Eng- lish Traits " will not stand the comparison . Emerson's obser- vation has not the disinterested quality of the observation of these masters . It is the ...
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... humanity , at all com- mensurate with the resources of the nation . " Then with what subtle though kindly irony he follows the gradual with- drawal in New England , in the last half century , of tender consciences from the social ...
... humanity , at all com- mensurate with the resources of the nation . " Then with what subtle though kindly irony he follows the gradual with- drawal in New England , in the last half century , of tender consciences from the social ...
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... ( his worshippers must forgive me for saying so ) the average sensual man impassioned and grandiloquent ; 1 The coming into blow of the choice flower of humanity . 66 in M. Zola we have the average sensual man LECTURE ON NUMBERS 8365.
... ( his worshippers must forgive me for saying so ) the average sensual man impassioned and grandiloquent ; 1 The coming into blow of the choice flower of humanity . 66 in M. Zola we have the average sensual man LECTURE ON NUMBERS 8365.
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... human nature , that for human societies it is ruin . And the test is one from which there is no escape , as from the old tests in such matters there may be . For if you allege that it is the will of God that we should be pure , the ...
... human nature , that for human societies it is ruin . And the test is one from which there is no escape , as from the old tests in such matters there may be . For if you allege that it is the will of God that we should be pure , the ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 8328 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Seite 8325 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Seite 8746 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
Seite 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...
Seite 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?
Seite 8338 - 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.
Seite 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.