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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... passages quoted , particularly with regard to the style , the grandeur of their conception , or the happy and forcible illustration of their subjects . Nothing need be said in commendation of the great speech on Kansas , 1 *
... passages quoted , particularly with regard to the style , the grandeur of their conception , or the happy and forcible illustration of their subjects . Nothing need be said in commendation of the great speech on Kansas , 1 *
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... regard to his literary character , we may also mention that he possessed respectable poetical talents . Some of his toasts at public festivals were expressed in verse , and were very felicitous . As a specimen , take the following ...
... regard to his literary character , we may also mention that he possessed respectable poetical talents . Some of his toasts at public festivals were expressed in verse , and were very felicitous . As a specimen , take the following ...
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... . Sumner early manifested the strongest at- tachment to Boston , his native city . In a passage of uncommon beauty he shows this regard in a happy manner : " Boston has always led the generous and mag- nanimous HON . CHARLES SUMNER . 19.
... . Sumner early manifested the strongest at- tachment to Boston , his native city . In a passage of uncommon beauty he shows this regard in a happy manner : " Boston has always led the generous and mag- nanimous HON . CHARLES SUMNER . 19.
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... regard to those who have left the stupendous monuments of intellect behind them - not that they were differ- ently exercised from the rest of the species , but that they must have been differently gifted . It is their talent , and ...
... regard to those who have left the stupendous monuments of intellect behind them - not that they were differ- ently exercised from the rest of the species , but that they must have been differently gifted . It is their talent , and ...
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... regard for him , wrote a letter of introduction to a distinguished gentleman in Lon- don , in which he says : " Mr. Sumner is a practising lawyer at the Bos- ton bar , of very high reputation for his years , and already giving the ...
... regard for him , wrote a letter of introduction to a distinguished gentleman in Lon- don , in which he says : " Mr. Sumner is a practising lawyer at the Bos- ton bar , of very high reputation for his years , and already giving the ...
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