Modern Eloquence: A Library of the World's Best Spoken Thought, Том 7Ashley Horace Thorndike Modern eloquence corporation, 1928 |
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... desire to say that I am no be- liever in that narrow scientific and technological training which now and again we hear extolled . A practical , and too often a mere vulgar , money - making utility seems to be its natural out- come . On ...
... desire to say that I am no be- liever in that narrow scientific and technological training which now and again we hear extolled . A practical , and too often a mere vulgar , money - making utility seems to be its natural out- come . On ...
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... desire for modern learning , as a covert attack on dead learning . I have no wish to attack it , except in its spirit of selfish ex- clusiveness . I do challenge the right of the classicist to longer say that by his path , and by his ...
... desire for modern learning , as a covert attack on dead learning . I have no wish to attack it , except in its spirit of selfish ex- clusiveness . I do challenge the right of the classicist to longer say that by his path , and by his ...
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... desire that spake from his lips . But , after all , this argument is an ignoble one fit only for ignoble minds . The testimony of the emperor does not carry conviction with it because he was an emperor , but because quite apart from the ...
... desire that spake from his lips . But , after all , this argument is an ignoble one fit only for ignoble minds . The testimony of the emperor does not carry conviction with it because he was an emperor , but because quite apart from the ...
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... desire to speak is large ; for I speak to the ordinary reader with ordinary capaci- ties and ordinary leisure , to whom reading is , or ought to be , not a business but a pleasure ; and my theme is the enjoy- ment — not the improvement ...
... desire to speak is large ; for I speak to the ordinary reader with ordinary capaci- ties and ordinary leisure , to whom reading is , or ought to be , not a business but a pleasure ; and my theme is the enjoy- ment — not the improvement ...
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... desire us to forget , and whose writings al- most wring from him the wish that the art of printing had never been discovered . I am even bold enough to hazard the conjecture ( I trust he will forgive me ) that Mr. Harrison's life may be ...
... desire us to forget , and whose writings al- most wring from him the wish that the art of printing had never been discovered . I am even bold enough to hazard the conjecture ( I trust he will forgive me ) that Mr. Harrison's life may be ...
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