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... words occur in an official document , there is no missing the sincerity and the reverence with which they are filled . This is the word of one who is definitely moved by his sense of the presence of God , who is both quieted and ...
... words occur in an official document , there is no missing the sincerity and the reverence with which they are filled . This is the word of one who is definitely moved by his sense of the presence of God , who is both quieted and ...
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... word and phrase are bad masters although good enough servants . What counts most is such choice and ordering of words that the idea or the picture drawn by words before the mind shall possess and display at once clearness of percep ...
... word and phrase are bad masters although good enough servants . What counts most is such choice and ordering of words that the idea or the picture drawn by words before the mind shall possess and display at once clearness of percep ...
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... words , a skill without which an excel- lent idea is never brought , first to clear - cut realization , and after to adequate expression . It may indeed be said that an idea is not properly born into the world until it be clothed with ...
... words , a skill without which an excel- lent idea is never brought , first to clear - cut realization , and after to adequate expression . It may indeed be said that an idea is not properly born into the world until it be clothed with ...
Contents
POETRY AND LIFE | 7 |
SHAKESPEARES CREED | 26 |
THE LINCOLN OF THE SECOND INAUGURAL | 43 |
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