The Life of Charles Sumner: With Choice Specimens of His Eloquence, a Delineation of His Oratorial Character, and His Great Speech on KansasH. Dayton, 1858 - 329 páginas |
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... civilization , he says , with much beauty and force : " Without here undertaking to decide the ques- tion of the supremacy of Greek or Roman genius , as displayed in individual minds , it would be easy to show , that the ancient ...
... civilization , he says , with much beauty and force : " Without here undertaking to decide the ques- tion of the supremacy of Greek or Roman genius , as displayed in individual minds , it would be easy to show , that the ancient ...
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... civilization , but leads the way to future triumphs . Through its un- tiring energies , the meditations of the closet , or the utterances of the human voice , which else would die away within the precincts of a narrow room , are ...
... civilization , but leads the way to future triumphs . Through its un- tiring energies , the meditations of the closet , or the utterances of the human voice , which else would die away within the precincts of a narrow room , are ...
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... civilization we now admire , is a descendant , perhaps , of one of those painted barbarians , whose degradation still lives in the pages of Julius Cæsar . Slowly and by degrees , he has reached the position where he now stands ; but he ...
... civilization we now admire , is a descendant , perhaps , of one of those painted barbarians , whose degradation still lives in the pages of Julius Cæsar . Slowly and by degrees , he has reached the position where he now stands ; but he ...
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... civilization , the Ottoman Sultan has fastened upon it the stigma of disappro- bation ; the Barbary States of Africa have been changed into Abolitionists ; from the untutored ruler of Morocco comes the expression of his desire , stamped ...
... civilization , the Ottoman Sultan has fastened upon it the stigma of disappro- bation ; the Barbary States of Africa have been changed into Abolitionists ; from the untutored ruler of Morocco comes the expression of his desire , stamped ...
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... by which the distant post of Council Bluffs will become a suburb of Washington . It would be difficult to exagger- ate the influence of roads as means of civilization . This , at least , may be said : Where 102 MEMOIR OF.
... by which the distant post of Council Bluffs will become a suburb of Washington . It would be difficult to exagger- ate the influence of roads as means of civilization . This , at least , may be said : Where 102 MEMOIR OF.
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