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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... objects which we have had in view : 1st , The presentation of the leading events in his public life , in a chronological order ; 2d , The in- troduction of the choicest specimens of his elo- quence , especially those passages which best ...
... objects which we have had in view : 1st , The presentation of the leading events in his public life , in a chronological order ; 2d , The in- troduction of the choicest specimens of his elo- quence , especially those passages which best ...
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... objects them- selves are unaltered , the changed eye and the changed 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 ...
... objects them- selves are unaltered , the changed eye and the changed 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 ...
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... object , the unweari- ness of labor that is given , not in convulsive and preternatural throes , but by little and little as the strength of the mind may bear it , —the accumula- tion of many small efforts , instead of a few grand and ...
... object , the unweari- ness of labor that is given , not in convulsive and preternatural throes , but by little and little as the strength of the mind may bear it , —the accumula- tion of many small efforts , instead of a few grand and ...
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... objects of his profes- sion , not merely to practice , but to extend the boundaries in the science of law , -I am very anxious that he should possess the means of visit- ing the courts of Westminster Hall under favora- ble auspices ...
... objects of his profes- sion , not merely to practice , but to extend the boundaries in the science of law , -I am very anxious that he should possess the means of visit- ing the courts of Westminster Hall under favora- ble auspices ...
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... object was " to widen the basis of freedom - to infuse and circulate the spirit of lib- erty . " From the pure fountain of liberty em- anated the political principles of Fox , and it has been said , that he drew from this source the ...
... object was " to widen the basis of freedom - to infuse and circulate the spirit of lib- erty . " From the pure fountain of liberty em- anated the political principles of Fox , and it has been said , that he drew from this source the ...
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