Readings from the best authors, ed. by A.H. Bryce, Issue 9Archibald Hamilton Bryce 1862 |
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Page 65
... speak for him , plead for him , pray for him . What will it not do ? What has it not done ? A steam - engine is but a larger hand , made to extend its powers by the little hand of man ! An electric telegraph is but a long pen for that ...
... speak for him , plead for him , pray for him . What will it not do ? What has it not done ? A steam - engine is but a larger hand , made to extend its powers by the little hand of man ! An electric telegraph is but a long pen for that ...
Page 73
... speak . My lords , we are called upon , as members of this house , as men , as Christians , to protest against such horrible barbarity ! " That God and nature have put into our hands ! " What ideas of God and nature that noble lord may ...
... speak . My lords , we are called upon , as members of this house , as men , as Christians , to protest against such horrible barbarity ! " That God and nature have put into our hands ! " What ideas of God and nature that noble lord may ...
Page 84
... speak on the authority and almost in the words of an eye- witness ) , and a melancholy tolling of the bell ... SPEAKING . 85 of years makes 84 TRANSITORY NATURE OF EARTHLY THINGS .
... speak on the authority and almost in the words of an eye- witness ) , and a melancholy tolling of the bell ... SPEAKING . 85 of years makes 84 TRANSITORY NATURE OF EARTHLY THINGS .
Page 85
... SPEAKING . The following is an extract from a letter of Lord Brougham , to Zachy . Macaulay , Esq . , father of Lord Macaulay ... speak . This is to eloquence or good public speaking what the being able to talk in a child is to correct ...
... SPEAKING . The following is an extract from a letter of Lord Brougham , to Zachy . Macaulay , Esq . , father of Lord Macaulay ... speak . This is to eloquence or good public speaking what the being able to talk in a child is to correct ...
Page 86
... speaking societies , with little attention to rule , and mere love of saying some- thing at any rate , than of saying anything well . I can even suppose that more attention is paid to the matter in such discussions than to the manner of ...
... speaking societies , with little attention to rule , and mere love of saying some- thing at any rate , than of saying anything well . I can even suppose that more attention is paid to the matter in such discussions than to the manner of ...
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