Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867Little, Brown,, 1867 - United States |
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... friends , what the Pilgrims , and what the Puritans , understood by education . It was not the mere cultivation of the mind . It was not the mere study of languages or of sciences . It was not the mere acquisition of arts or of ...
... friends , what the Pilgrims , and what the Puritans , understood by education . It was not the mere cultivation of the mind . It was not the mere study of languages or of sciences . It was not the mere acquisition of arts or of ...
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... friends to whom he may read it , at the bath or the supper , in the garden or the school ? How many persons of their own time , think you , could have been roused by the Panegyric of Isocrates , or been charmed with the history of ...
... friends to whom he may read it , at the bath or the supper , in the garden or the school ? How many persons of their own time , think you , could have been roused by the Panegyric of Isocrates , or been charmed with the history of ...
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... friends , kindred , country , all , Lie waste beneath its selfishness . " * I fear , brethren , that this principle of composition is not yet abandoned . I fear that we owe more than one work of later days to the same theory . I fancy ...
... friends , kindred , country , all , Lie waste beneath its selfishness . " * I fear , brethren , that this principle of composition is not yet abandoned . I fear that we owe more than one work of later days to the same theory . I fancy ...
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... friends , and because I have never learned that great art which the fairer portion of my audience understand how to prize and how to practise , when teased by the importunity of admiring suitors , the art of say- ing no ! Seriously , my ...
... friends , and because I have never learned that great art which the fairer portion of my audience understand how to prize and how to practise , when teased by the importunity of admiring suitors , the art of say- ing no ! Seriously , my ...
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... friends , from all quarters of the Old Colony , and from many other parts of the Commonwealth and of the country , from all pursuits and professions and political parties , to join hands and hearts in furtherance of the great industrial ...
... friends , from all quarters of the Old Colony , and from many other parts of the Commonwealth and of the country , from all pursuits and professions and political parties , to join hands and hearts in furtherance of the great industrial ...
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