Modern Eloquence: A Library of the World's Best Spoken Thought, Том 3Ashley Horace Thorndike Modern eloquence corporation, 1928 |
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... once and bold , when the fires of the Trojans around us blaze fearfully near , and on this night's decision depends the fate of our army . " But first the feast and then the counsel that is to prevail in this crisis . Nor is it until ...
... once and bold , when the fires of the Trojans around us blaze fearfully near , and on this night's decision depends the fate of our army . " But first the feast and then the counsel that is to prevail in this crisis . Nor is it until ...
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... whatsoever . And on this depends your salvation , no less than ours . Some of you may remember that once , during that great siege of Petersburg , which resulted , in the beginning of April , 1865 , in the 36 THOMAS NELSON PAGE.
... whatsoever . And on this depends your salvation , no less than ours . Some of you may remember that once , during that great siege of Petersburg , which resulted , in the beginning of April , 1865 , in the 36 THOMAS NELSON PAGE.
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... once semi - socialistic but now reactionary Isle of New Zealand , and the girdle will not touch a land where , during all history , freedom . and prosperity have blessed the people so fully as here . Nowhere else will you find a ...
... once semi - socialistic but now reactionary Isle of New Zealand , and the girdle will not touch a land where , during all history , freedom . and prosperity have blessed the people so fully as here . Nowhere else will you find a ...
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... once - especially when it is spoken among the lengthening shadows of the western light- it sticks somewhat in the throat . It becomes , indeed , " the word that makes us linger . " But it does not prompt many other words . It is best ...
... once - especially when it is spoken among the lengthening shadows of the western light- it sticks somewhat in the throat . It becomes , indeed , " the word that makes us linger . " But it does not prompt many other words . It is best ...
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... once be found to be a very shallow plea . For in any department of life , social , political , or artistic , nothing is more difficult than to avoid incurring the suspicion that you mean to succeed in the widest application of that term ...
... once be found to be a very shallow plea . For in any department of life , social , political , or artistic , nothing is more difficult than to avoid incurring the suspicion that you mean to succeed in the widest application of that term ...
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Стр. 200 - Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Стр. 267 - Ireland, king, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken for the glory of GOD, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of GOD and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Стр. xviii - Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Стр. 322 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Стр. xxvii - HIGH on a throne of royal state, • — which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus, and of Ind ; Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold...
Стр. 267 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission...
Стр. 168 - To set the Cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honour while you strike him down The foe that comes with fearless eyes: To count the life of battle good, And dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood That binds the brave of all the earth...
Стр. 12 - And the torch that would light them thro' dignity's way, Must be caught from the pile, where their country expires Then blame not the bard, if in pleasure's soft dream, He should try to forget what he never can heal : Oh ! give but a hope — let a vista but gleam Through the gloom of his country, and mark how he'll feel!
Стр. 12 - But though glory be gone, and though hope fade away, Thy name, loved Erin ! shall live in his songs, Not even in the hour when his heart is most gay Will he lose the remembrance of thee and thy wrongs ! The stranger shall hear thy lament on his plains ; The sigh of thy harp shall be sent o'er the deep, Till thy masters themselves, as they rivet thy chains, Shall pause at the song of their captive and weep ! WHILE GAZING ON THE MOON'S LIGHT.
Стр. 205 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.