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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... . 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 original sources , read all authorities and references , and made him- self 20 MEMOIR OF.
... . 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 original sources , read all authorities and references , and made him- self 20 MEMOIR OF.
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... never their industry , by which they have been thought to signalize them- selves ; and seldom is it adverted to , how much it is to the more strenuous application of those com- mon - place faculties which are diffused among all , that ...
... never their industry , by which they have been thought to signalize them- selves ; and seldom is it adverted to , how much it is to the more strenuous application of those com- mon - place faculties which are diffused among all , that ...
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... never to be found among the demigods , but only among the drudges of literature : and it is certainly true , that in scholarship there are higher and lower walks . But still the very highest of all is a walk of labor . It is not by any ...
... never to be found among the demigods , but only among the drudges of literature : and it is certainly true , that in scholarship there are higher and lower walks . But still the very highest of all is a walk of labor . It is not by any ...
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... never gets beyond the outskirts of the show - houses . " Eight years later yet , he received a compliment , which , from an English bench , is of the rarest occurrence . On an insurance question , before the Court of Ex- chequer , one ...
... never gets beyond the outskirts of the show - houses . " Eight years later yet , he received a compliment , which , from an English bench , is of the rarest occurrence . On an insurance question , before the Court of Ex- chequer , one ...
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... never more be entered through any portal of War ; the horn of Abun- dance shall overflow at its gates ; the angel of Religion shall be the guide over its steps of flash- ing adamant ; while within its enraptured courts , purged of ...
... never more be entered through any portal of War ; the horn of Abun- dance shall overflow at its gates ; the angel of Religion shall be the guide over its steps of flash- ing adamant ; while within its enraptured courts , purged of ...
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