The Life of Charles Sumner: With Choice Specimens of His Eloquence, a Delineation of His Oratorical Character and His Great Speech on KansasDayton and Burdick, 1856 - 329 páginas |
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... feel- ings of our common nature , rise in rebellion against it . to the understanding or to the heart , the sentence is the In vain you tell me of laws that sanction such a claim ! all the enactments of human codes - the same throughout ...
... feel- ings of our common nature , rise in rebellion against it . to the understanding or to the heart , the sentence is the In vain you tell me of laws that sanction such a claim ! all the enactments of human codes - the same throughout ...
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... feel the poetry of Gray , on re- visiting , in a like manner , the scenes of his school- boy days : ' Ah , happy hills ! ah , pleasing shade ! Ah , fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood strayed , A stranger yet to ...
... feel the poetry of Gray , on re- visiting , in a like manner , the scenes of his school- boy days : ' Ah , happy hills ! ah , pleasing shade ! Ah , fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood strayed , A stranger yet to ...
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... feels that his foot is planted on familiar ground , and whose mind is so saturated with legal knowledge , that it readily pours it forth at the slightest pressure , reminding us of those first ' sprightly runnings of the wine- press ...
... feels that his foot is planted on familiar ground , and whose mind is so saturated with legal knowledge , that it readily pours it forth at the slightest pressure , reminding us of those first ' sprightly runnings of the wine- press ...
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... feel the insignificance of office and wealth , which men so hotly pursue . What is office and what is wealth ? They are the ex- pressions and representatives of what is present and fleeting only , investing their possessor , per- haps ...
... feel the insignificance of office and wealth , which men so hotly pursue . What is office and what is wealth ? They are the ex- pressions and representatives of what is present and fleeting only , investing their possessor , per- haps ...
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... feel the bene- faction . Worms may destroy the body ; but they cannot consume such a fame . It is fondly cher- ished on earth , and never forgotten in heaven . " The selfish struggles of the crowd , the clamors of a false patriotism ...
... feel the bene- faction . Worms may destroy the body ; but they cannot consume such a fame . It is fondly cher- ished on earth , and never forgotten in heaven . " The selfish struggles of the crowd , the clamors of a false patriotism ...
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