Modern Business Correspondence: A Practical Treatise on the Writing of Business Letters, Including Many Exercises in Word Study, Synonyms, and Writing, Punctuation, Etc..

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Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906 - 176 páginas
 

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Página 156 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Página 145 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
Página 72 - The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again...
Página 143 - Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Página 47 - An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury.
Página 156 - The people themselves can do this also if they choose, but the Executive as such has nothing to do with it. His duty is to administer the present Government as it came to his hands and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor.
Página 108 - We may live without poetry, music and art, We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without, books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
Página 144 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Página 143 - There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal, whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent: for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
Página 143 - One of its warmest advocates, one of the framers of it, (Mr. Wilson, of Pennsylvania,) has recommended it by calling it a pure democracy. Does this look like a democracy, when one of the first acts of the two branches of the Legislature is to confer titles ? Surely not. To give dignity to our government, we must give a lofty title to our chief magistrate. Does the dignity of a nation consist in the distance between the first magistrate and his citizens ? Does it consist in the exaltation of one man,...

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