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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... mind . His youthful years were thus profitably passed in collecting gems of wis- dom and truth , and in laying the foundation of his future eminence as a scholar , and as an orator and statesman . He was carefully prepared for a col ...
... mind . His youthful years were thus profitably passed in collecting gems of wis- dom and truth , and in laying the foundation of his future eminence as a scholar , and as an orator and statesman . He was carefully prepared for a col ...
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... mind see them differently . The streets seem narrower and shorter , the distances less con siderable ; this play - ground before us , which I re member as most spacious , seems sadly contracted But all , sir , is not changed , either in ...
... mind see them differently . The streets seem narrower and shorter , the distances less con siderable ; this play - ground before us , which I re member as most spacious , seems sadly contracted But all , sir , is not changed , either in ...
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... mind to incessant and hard study , and read all the legal authors of value which he met with . His labor in this respect was truly assiduous , as it was astonishing . We are informed that he never re- lied upon text - books , but sought ...
... mind to incessant and hard study , and read all the legal authors of value which he met with . His labor in this respect was truly assiduous , as it was astonishing . We are informed that he never re- lied upon text - books , but sought ...
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... as the strength of the mind may bear it , —the accumula- tion of many small efforts , instead of a few grand and gigantic but perhaps irregular movements on the part of energies that are marvellous . Men have 22 MEMOIR OF.
... as the strength of the mind may bear it , —the accumula- tion of many small efforts , instead of a few grand and gigantic but perhaps irregular movements on the part of energies that are marvellous . Men have 22 MEMOIR OF.
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... minds , and beyond their reach - it is not by this that the heights of philosophy are scaled . So said he who towers so far above all his fellows ; and whether viewed as an exhibition of his own modesty , or as an encour- agement to ...
... minds , and beyond their reach - it is not by this that the heights of philosophy are scaled . So said he who towers so far above all his fellows ; and whether viewed as an exhibition of his own modesty , or as an encour- agement to ...
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