Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Volume 20Mayo Williamson Hazeltine |
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Page 8322
... things of power . But he is over eighty years old ; he is in the Oratory at Birmingham ; he has adopted , for the doubts and difficulties which beset men's minds to - day , a solution which , to speak frankly , is impossible . Forty ...
... things of power . But he is over eighty years old ; he is in the Oratory at Birmingham ; he has adopted , for the doubts and difficulties which beset men's minds to - day , a solution which , to speak frankly , is impossible . Forty ...
Page 8326
... passages from his poetry are no doubt perfectly familiar to the mind and lips of the critic whom I have men- tioned , and perhaps a wide circle of American readers . But this is a very different thing from being matter 8326 ARNOLD.
... passages from his poetry are no doubt perfectly familiar to the mind and lips of the critic whom I have men- tioned , and perhaps a wide circle of American readers . But this is a very different thing from being matter 8326 ARNOLD.
Page 8327
... thing from being matter of universal quotation , like the phrases of the legitimate poets . And , in truth , one of the legitimate poets , Emerson , in my opinion , is not . His poetry is interesting , it makes one think ; but it is not ...
... thing from being matter of universal quotation , like the phrases of the legitimate poets . And , in truth , one of the legitimate poets , Emerson , in my opinion , is not . His poetry is interesting , it makes one think ; but it is not ...
Page 8329
... things , and , in spite of his spiritual power , deeply impairs his poetic value . Through the inestimable virtue of concreteness , a simple poem like " The Bridge " of Longfellow , or the " School Days " of Mr. Whittier , is of more ...
... things , and , in spite of his spiritual power , deeply impairs his poetic value . Through the inestimable virtue of concreteness , a simple poem like " The Bridge " of Longfellow , or the " School Days " of Mr. Whittier , is of more ...
Page 8330
... thing they had in their heads was such writing as I have just quoted . Unsound it is , indeed , and in a style almost impossible to a born man of letters . It is a curious thing , that quality of style which marks the great writer , the ...
... thing they had in their heads was such writing as I have just quoted . Unsound it is , indeed , and in a style almost impossible to a born man of letters . It is a curious thing , that quality of style which marks the great writer , 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 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 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 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
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 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 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.
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.