Text-book of Prose, from Burke, Webster, and Bacon, with Notes, and Sketches of the Authors' Lives, for Use in Schools and ClassesGinn, Heath, & Company, 1881 |
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Page 326
... exercise in verbal legerdemain , are made quite as much of as the choice workmanship of our best Ameri- can poets , Bryant , Longfellow , and Whittier . This is an application of the levelling principle so unjust and so inexpedient ...
... exercise in verbal legerdemain , are made quite as much of as the choice workmanship of our best Ameri- can poets , Bryant , Longfellow , and Whittier . This is an application of the levelling principle so unjust and so inexpedient ...
Page 329
... obvious points of preference in the education of American youth . Nor can I think it fitting or just to be using only such fragments of him as are commonly served up for mere exercises in declamation and elocution : in fact , I PREFACE .
... obvious points of preference in the education of American youth . Nor can I think it fitting or just to be using only such fragments of him as are commonly served up for mere exercises in declamation and elocution : in fact , I PREFACE .
Page 330
Henry Norman Hudson. exercises in declamation and elocution : in fact , I have little faith in such exercises , save in connection with the attain- ment of something higher and better . For manner , to be really good , must be held ...
Henry Norman Hudson. exercises in declamation and elocution : in fact , I have little faith in such exercises , save in connection with the attain- ment of something higher and better . For manner , to be really good , must be held ...
Page 346
... exercise for the schools , is not a little out of place , when it is brought thence to be applied here to the conduct of our own country towards her own citizens . From America to England , it may be true ; from Americans to their own ...
... exercise for the schools , is not a little out of place , when it is brought thence to be applied here to the conduct of our own country towards her own citizens . From America to England , it may be true ; from Americans to their own ...
Page 349
... exercise any not within a fair interpretation . But when it is believed that a power does exist , then it is , in my judgment , to be exercised for the general benefit of the whole . So far as respects the exercise of such a power , the ...
... exercise any not within a fair interpretation . But when it is believed that a power does exist , then it is , in my judgment , to be exercised for the general benefit of the whole . So far as respects the exercise of such a power , the ...
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