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Page 17
... hours when we encountered the best persons , we then found ourselves , and then first society seemed to exist . That was society , though in the transom of a brig or on the Florida Keys . more , --- A cold sluggish blood thinks it has ...
... hours when we encountered the best persons , we then found ourselves , and then first society seemed to exist . That was society , though in the transom of a brig or on the Florida Keys . more , --- A cold sluggish blood thinks it has ...
Page 28
... hour , thereby sup- plying all the ship's want . The skill that pervades complex details ; the man that maintains himself ; the chimney taught to burn its own smoke ; the farm made to produce all that is consumed on it ; the very prison ...
... hour , thereby sup- plying all the ship's want . The skill that pervades complex details ; the man that maintains himself ; the chimney taught to burn its own smoke ; the farm made to produce all that is consumed on it ; the very prison ...
Page 52
... hour , and says what cannot but be said . Hence the term abandonment , to describe the self - surrender of the orator . Not his will , but the principle on which he is horsed , the great con- nection and crisis of events , thunder in ...
... hour , and says what cannot but be said . Hence the term abandonment , to describe the self - surrender of the orator . Not his will , but the principle on which he is horsed , the great con- nection and crisis of events , thunder in ...
Page 66
... hours , perhaps in a half - hour's discourse , the convictions and habits of years . Young men , too , are eager to enjoy this sense of added power and enlarged sympathetic existence . The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude ...
... hours , perhaps in a half - hour's discourse , the convictions and habits of years . Young men , too , are eager to enjoy this sense of added power and enlarged sympathetic existence . The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude ...
Page 71
... hours attentive to the most fanci- ful and extravagant adventures . The whole world knows pretty well the style of these improvisators , and how fascinating they are , in our translations of the " Arabian Nights . " Scheherezade tells ...
... hours attentive to the most fanci- ful and extravagant adventures . The whole world knows pretty well the style of these improvisators , and how fascinating they are , in our translations of the " Arabian Nights . " Scheherezade tells ...
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