The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to Ư the Present Time, Volume 8F. P. Kaiser, 1899 - Speeches, addresses, etc The text of thousands of speeches from all historical periods through the 19th century arranged in alphabetical order,. |
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Page 2875
... expression , he became easily one of the ablest men of the nineteenth century , lacking nothing of greatness that the cultivation of the intellect could give him . What he did lack Emerson tells us plainly and compre- hensively . " The ...
... expression , he became easily one of the ablest men of the nineteenth century , lacking nothing of greatness that the cultivation of the intellect could give him . What he did lack Emerson tells us plainly and compre- hensively . " The ...
Page 2876
... expression so fit and memorable could not have failed to do much to give them that currency and vogue which fin- ally achieve their triumph in becoming the commonplace . Macaulay was born October 25th , 1800 , and educated at Trinity ...
... expression so fit and memorable could not have failed to do much to give them that currency and vogue which fin- ally achieve their triumph in becoming the commonplace . Macaulay was born October 25th , 1800 , and educated at Trinity ...
Page 2883
... expression , he became easily one of the ablest men of the nineteenth century , lacking nothing of greatness that the cultivation of the intellect could give him . What he did lack Emerson tells us plainly and compre- hensively . " The ...
... expression , he became easily one of the ablest men of the nineteenth century , lacking nothing of greatness that the cultivation of the intellect could give him . What he did lack Emerson tells us plainly and compre- hensively . " The ...
Page 2883
... expression so fit and memorable could not have failed to do much to give them that currency and vogue which fin- ally achieve their triumph in becoming the commonplace . Macaulay was born October 25th , 1800 , and educated at Trinity ...
... expression so fit and memorable could not have failed to do much to give them that currency and vogue which fin- ally achieve their triumph in becoming the commonplace . Macaulay was born October 25th , 1800 , and educated at Trinity ...
Page 2890
... expression of typical Conservative views . The peroration of this speech on the Washington Treaty is perhaps the best example of his thoroughly business - like method as a speaker . He was born in Glasgow , Scotland , January 11th ...
... expression of typical Conservative views . The peroration of this speech on the Washington Treaty is perhaps the best example of his thoroughly business - like method as a speaker . He was born in Glasgow , Scotland , January 11th ...
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Page 3223 - Not as the conqueror comes They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame. Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ; — They shook the depths of the desert gloom, With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Page 2972 - ... and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, " This is the way, walk ye in it," when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Page 3125 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 3001 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 2999 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 3019 - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Page 3002 - Why else was this nation chosen before any other, that out of her as out of Sion should be proclaimed and sounded forth the first tidings and trumpet of reformation to all Europe ? And had it not been the obstinate perverseness of our prelates against the divine and admirable spirit of...
Page 3121 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 3078 - Lord, dost thou not care that my sister did leave me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. But the Lord answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and troubled about many things : but one thing is needful : for Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Page 2999 - Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...