A Modern Reader and Speaker: Containing the Best Readings, Recitations and Orations of the World's Most Celebrated Authors and OratorsGeorge Riddle Duffield, 1899 - 629 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 12
... — a selfishness that the better part of the intellectual world has outgrown . There cannot be one law for persons of superior mental endowment and another law for the rest . Knowledge avails nothing unless it be communi- cated 12.
... — a selfishness that the better part of the intellectual world has outgrown . There cannot be one law for persons of superior mental endowment and another law for the rest . Knowledge avails nothing unless it be communi- cated 12.
الصفحة 15
... persons are in no fit condition to comprehend the drama , and , even if they were , the actor is not an apothecary . The time for going to the play is when you are well and refreshed and can appreciate what you see and hear ; when your ...
... persons are in no fit condition to comprehend the drama , and , even if they were , the actor is not an apothecary . The time for going to the play is when you are well and refreshed and can appreciate what you see and hear ; when your ...
الصفحة 24
... person was regaling on dewberries . They grew between the bank and the water . Apparently she found the fruit abundant , for her hand was making pretty progress to her mouth . Fastidious youth , which revolts at woman plumping her ...
... person was regaling on dewberries . They grew between the bank and the water . Apparently she found the fruit abundant , for her hand was making pretty progress to her mouth . Fastidious youth , which revolts at woman plumping her ...
الصفحة 30
... person , she would have owed a distinction to the far- away past to which she gave continuity , would have been interesting from the curious contacts she was able , as it were , to transmit . She made us touch her aunt , Mrs. Siddons ...
... person , she would have owed a distinction to the far- away past to which she gave continuity , would have been interesting from the curious contacts she was able , as it were , to transmit . She made us touch her aunt , Mrs. Siddons ...
الصفحة 35
... person who had Mrs. Kemble's organ , her pres- ence , and her rare perceptions . • Her talk reflected a thousand vanished and present things ; but there were those of her friends for whom its value was , as I have hinted , almost before ...
... person who had Mrs. Kemble's organ , her pres- ence , and her rare perceptions . • Her talk reflected a thousand vanished and present things ; but there were those of her friends for whom its value was , as I have hinted , almost before ...
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