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ing the orator's temptation to please and captivate by extravagant and false
sentiment and statement . The writer , and particularly the political writer , is
tempted to this sort of immorality , but still more the speaker , for with the latter the
reward of ...
ing the orator's temptation to please and captivate by extravagant and false
sentiment and statement . The writer , and particularly the political writer , is
tempted to this sort of immorality , but still more the speaker , for with the latter the
reward of ...
Página xlii
... that suggests music ; again we hear the strain of the Leitmotif . Strangely
enough , in 1858 Lincoln himself had used a figure not the same as , but
suggestive of , this very one now given by Seward . He was speaking of the moral
sentiment ,
... that suggests music ; again we hear the strain of the Leitmotif . Strangely
enough , in 1858 Lincoln himself had used a figure not the same as , but
suggestive of , this very one now given by Seward . He was speaking of the moral
sentiment ,
Página xliii
He was speaking of the moral sentiment , the sentiment of equality , in the
Declaration of Independence . “ That , ” he said , “ is the electric chord in that
Declaration , that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty - loving men together ,
that will link ...
He was speaking of the moral sentiment , the sentiment of equality , in the
Declaration of Independence . “ That , ” he said , “ is the electric chord in that
Declaration , that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty - loving men together ,
that will link ...
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... that " he trembled for his country when he remembered that God was just ” ;
and I will offer the highest premium in my power to Judge Douglas if he will show
that he , in all his life , ever uttered a sentiment at all akin to that of Jefferson .
... that " he trembled for his country when he remembered that God was just ” ;
and I will offer the highest premium in my power to Judge Douglas if he will show
that he , in all his life , ever uttered a sentiment at all akin to that of Jefferson .
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I say I believe it will take a far better argument than a mere sneer to show to the
minds of intelligent men that whoever has so said is not prepared , whenever
public sentiment is so far advanced as to justify it , to say the other . THE WRONG
OF ...
I say I believe it will take a far better argument than a mere sneer to show to the
minds of intelligent men that whoever has so said is not prepared , whenever
public sentiment is so far advanced as to justify it , to say the other . THE WRONG
OF ...
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