Anecdotes of Public Men, 2 tomasHarper & Brothers, 1881 - 444 psl. |
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... EVERETT , THE CLASSIC ORATOR . EDWARD EVERETT , of Massachusetts , was the ideal of public and private virtue . He was placid , cool , exact , and conscien- tious , yet always imaginative , and sometimes impassioned . Daniel Webster ...
... EVERETT , THE CLASSIC ORATOR . EDWARD EVERETT , of Massachusetts , was the ideal of public and private virtue . He was placid , cool , exact , and conscien- tious , yet always imaginative , and sometimes impassioned . Daniel Webster ...
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... Everett : " We now and then see stretching across the heavens a clear , blue , cerulean sky , with- out cloud or mist or haze . And such appears to me our ac- quaintance , from the time when I heard you for a week recite your lessons in ...
... Everett : " We now and then see stretching across the heavens a clear , blue , cerulean sky , with- out cloud or mist or haze . And such appears to me our ac- quaintance , from the time when I heard you for a week recite your lessons in ...
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... Everett looked the character he was . Gen- tle , courteous , kind , with a musical voice , a face of singular be- nevolence , a figure erect and graceful , and an air of high yet modest culture , his conversation was exceedingly ...
... Everett looked the character he was . Gen- tle , courteous , kind , with a musical voice , a face of singular be- nevolence , a figure erect and graceful , and an air of high yet modest culture , his conversation was exceedingly ...
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... Everett's sermon , and Mr. Otis wept bitterly . There were some very touching appeals to our most delicate feelings on the loss of our friends . Mr. Everett was almost universally admired as the most eloquent of preachers . " Seated at ...
... Everett's sermon , and Mr. Otis wept bitterly . There were some very touching appeals to our most delicate feelings on the loss of our friends . Mr. Everett was almost universally admired as the most eloquent of preachers . " Seated at ...
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... Everett for the last thirty years , he is found en rapport with his fellow - citizens . The subjects are naturally very various , but the thought is always the same , and returns to one point , intellectual education , the morality and ...
... Everett for the last thirty years , he is found en rapport with his fellow - citizens . The subjects are naturally very various , but the thought is always the same , and returns to one point , intellectual education , the morality and ...
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