An American BibleAlice Hubbard The Roycrofters, 1912 - 328 pages A collection of quotations from Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Robert Ingersoll, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Elbert Hubbard |
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... write . Books were written painstakingly by learned men ; and any man who could read and write was looked upon as educated . Naturally , when a book was made , there was a desire to put into it all the wisdom the writer could gather ...
... write . Books were written painstakingly by learned men ; and any man who could read and write was looked upon as educated . Naturally , when a book was made , there was a desire to put into it all the wisdom the writer could gather ...
Page 186
... write a creed . Wait until the chains are broken - until dungeons are not regarded as temples . Wait until solemnity is not mistaken for wisdom - until mental cowardice ceases to be known as reverence . Wait until the living are ...
... write a creed . Wait until the chains are broken - until dungeons are not regarded as temples . Wait until solemnity is not mistaken for wisdom - until mental cowardice ceases to be known as reverence . Wait until the living are ...
Page 238
... write them down , but we lose ever and anon a word , or a verse , and substitute something of our own , and thus miswrite the poem . The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully , and these transcripts , though ...
... write them down , but we lose ever and anon a word , or a verse , and substitute something of our own , and thus miswrite the poem . The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully , and these transcripts , though ...
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