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Napoleon's literary art was the making of phrases which pierced like a Corsican
knife or tingled the blood like the call of a trumpet . His words went to their mark
quick as a stroke of lightning . When he speaks it is as if an earthquake had ...
Napoleon's literary art was the making of phrases which pierced like a Corsican
knife or tingled the blood like the call of a trumpet . His words went to their mark
quick as a stroke of lightning . When he speaks it is as if an earthquake had ...
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After he was twenty - three and had separated from his father , he studied English
grammar - imperfectly , of course , but so as to speak and write as well as he now
does . He studied and nearly mastered the six books of Euclid since he was a ...
After he was twenty - three and had separated from his father , he studied English
grammar - imperfectly , of course , but so as to speak and write as well as he now
does . He studied and nearly mastered the six books of Euclid since he was a ...
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At twenty - four , when he was supposed to be keeping a shop , Nicolay and Hay
speak of the ' grotesque youth , habited in homespun tow , lying on his back , with
his feet on the trunk of the tree , and poring over his book by the hour , grinding ...
At twenty - four , when he was supposed to be keeping a shop , Nicolay and Hay
speak of the ' grotesque youth , habited in homespun tow , lying on his back , with
his feet on the trunk of the tree , and poring over his book by the hour , grinding ...
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By practice in extemporary speaking Lincoln learned to do a most difficult thing -
namely , to produce literature on his legs . It is difficult thus to produce literature ,
because the words must flow with immediate precision . It is unusual for a ...
By practice in extemporary speaking Lincoln learned to do a most difficult thing -
namely , to produce literature on his legs . It is difficult thus to produce literature ,
because the words must flow with immediate precision . It is unusual for a ...
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... 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 ,
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| Título | Lincoln: Passages from His Speeches and Letters |
| Autor | Abraham Lincoln |
| Colaborador | Richard Watson Gilder |
| Editor | Century, 1925 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Cornell |
| Digitalizado | 3 Jun. 2013 |
| Largo | 204 páginas |
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