College Readings in English ProseFrank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin Macmillan, 1914 - 653 páginas |
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... Intellectual Powers of Woman Fabian Franklin 276 The Mathematician and the Engi- neer 66 · Engineering ” 291 Popular Control of National Wealth . O. C. Barber . 296 5. Persuasion Address at Swarthmore College . Address at Gettysburg ...
... Intellectual Powers of Woman Fabian Franklin 276 The Mathematician and the Engi- neer 66 · Engineering ” 291 Popular Control of National Wealth . O. C. Barber . 296 5. Persuasion Address at Swarthmore College . Address at Gettysburg ...
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... intellectual tone of society , at cultivating the public mind , at purifying the national taste , at supplying true principles to popular enthu- siasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration , at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ...
... intellectual tone of society , at cultivating the public mind , at purifying the national taste , at supplying true principles to popular enthu- siasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration , at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ...
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... intellectual exertion . His energies were bent in the conquest of certain stubborn external forces , and he used his intelligence almost exclusively to this end . The struggles , the hardships , and the necessary self - denial of ...
... intellectual exertion . His energies were bent in the conquest of certain stubborn external forces , and he used his intelligence almost exclusively to this end . The struggles , the hardships , and the necessary self - denial of ...
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... intellectual bent to be betrayed into mere extravagance and aberration . But with the sound instinct of a well - balanced intelligence Lincoln seized upon the three available books , the earnest study of which might best help to develop ...
... intellectual bent to be betrayed into mere extravagance and aberration . But with the sound instinct of a well - balanced intelligence Lincoln seized upon the three available books , the earnest study of which might best help to develop ...
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... intellectual training . It relieved his culture from the taint of bookishness . It gave substance to his humor . It humanized his wisdom and enabled him to express it in a familiar and dramatic form . It placed at his disposal , that is ...
... intellectual training . It relieved his culture from the taint of bookishness . It gave substance to his humor . It humanized his wisdom and enabled him to express it in a familiar and dramatic form . It placed at his disposal , that is ...
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American beauty become bees better Bill called camp canal cell character Clayton-Bulwer treaty Committee common Company course Doctrine drones E. L. Godkin engineer England English eyes fact feeling feet field fire forest Frank Churchill Gannet gates give Goldwin Smith ground hand hive honey House human industrial interest JOHN RUSKIN kind labor land larvæ less light living lock look Mark Twain means ment mind Monroe Doctrine moral nature never night once organization ourselves party passed passion political Poor Law present protoplasm queen Reprinted by permission royal jelly scene seems sense side Single-Taxers social socialists Speaker spirit things thought tion town treaty trees turned United valves Vateria Waverley Novels whole WILLIAM HAZLITT words workers young youth
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Página 192 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
Página 548 - Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Página 544 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Página 209 - ... that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families...
Página 237 - The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane...
Página 568 - Theirs be the music, the colour, the glory, the gold ; Mine be a handful of ashes, a mouthful of mould. Of the maimed, of the halt and the blind in the rain and the cold — Of these shall my songs be fashioned, my tales be told.
Página 131 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 387 - ... a confusion of delight, amidst which the breasts of the Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam, and toss themselves far into the blue sky in flashes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers on the Lido shore had been frost-bound before they fell, and the seanymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst.
Página 215 - ... amidst the lightning of the sea, its thin masts written upon the sky in lines of blood, girded with condemnation in that fearful hue which signs the sky with horror and mixes its flaming flood with the sunlight, and, cast far along the desolate heave of the sepulchral waves, incarnadines the multitudinous sea.
Página 6 - Active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds that support it and the further conclusions to which it tends constitutes reflective thought.