Modern Eloquence, Volume 6Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1903 |
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Modern Eloquence, Volume 6 Thomas Brackett Reed,Rossiter Johnson,Justin McCarthy,Albert Ellery Bergh Visualização integral - 1903 |
Modern Eloquence, Volume 6 Thomas Brackett Reed,Rossiter Johnson,Justin McCarthy,Albert Ellery Bergh Visualização integral - 1900 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Abraham Lincoln Applause army asked audience Banalya beauty Beecher called character child Christian civilization Confucianism Confucius death earth Egypt Egyptians Emin Emin Pasha enemy England English enny Europe eyes father feel feet forest France French hand heard heart heaven HENRY MORTON STANLEY hornet human hundred island Jews kind king lady Lake Albert land laugh Laughter lecture letters Li Hung-Chang light Lincoln live look Mark Twain marry miles mind morning mulatto Napoleon nation nature negro never night once Pasha Photogravure planet play poem poor race replied satire Scotch Scotchman seems sent slaves soldiers soul speak story Swift Taoist tell Thare thing thought thousand tion Tippu Tib told Toussaint Uranus Wadelai Wendell Phillips wife woman word Yambuya young Zanzibar
Passagens conhecidas
Página 1232 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye ? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Página 1180 - 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 1119 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 872 - O, lift me from the grass! I die, I faint, I fail! Let thy love in kisses rain On my lips and eyelids pale. My cheek is cold and white, alas! My heart beats loud and fast: Oh! press it close to thine again, Where it will break at last!
Página 885 - Who was her father ? Who was her mother ? Had she a sister ? Had she a brother ? Or was there a dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other...
Página 880 - I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist : A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Página 887 - Though the day of my destiny's over, And the star of my fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find ; Though thy soul with my grief was acquainted, It shrunk not to share it with me, And the love which my spirit hath painted It never hath found but in thee.
Página 1192 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
Página 1105 - That the remaining hundred thousand may at a year old be offered in sale to the persons of quality, and fortune, through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially...
Página 1192 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable ; being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.