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... man may pursue for himself . We have at least the same facilities in this respect that the first orator had . In the ... man's experience contains biographical inci- dents suggestive of oratorical principles . Every educated mind which ...
... man may pursue for himself . We have at least the same facilities in this respect that the first orator had . In the ... man's experience contains biographical inci- dents suggestive of oratorical principles . Every educated mind which ...
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... man above all others most unlike himself , and whose sermons , not only in degree . of excellence , but in kind and in ... man's character is full of similar suggestions . Every character has a history of changes . They lie deeper than ...
... man above all others most unlike himself , and whose sermons , not only in degree . of excellence , but in kind and in ... man's character is full of similar suggestions . Every character has a history of changes . They lie deeper than ...
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... man's own experience of truth . Such truth he knows . Comparatively speaking , he knows nothing else . 2. Every ... man , without meeting some of the elements of all earnest oratory . A man chasing his hat in a gale acts in pantomime a ...
... man's own experience of truth . Such truth he knows . Comparatively speaking , he knows nothing else . 2. Every ... man , without meeting some of the elements of all earnest oratory . A man chasing his hat in a gale acts in pantomime a ...
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... man's mouth ? " Such misuses of Christian truth involve a cost to the cause of Christ which would bankrupt it if it were any other than the cause of Christ . In ways which I have not time to detail , changes may come upon the opinions ...
... man's mouth ? " Such misuses of Christian truth involve a cost to the cause of Christ which would bankrupt it if it were any other than the cause of Christ . In ways which I have not time to detail , changes may come upon the opinions ...
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... man's mental discipline from schools of learning is a modern , and specially an American idea . Here it has arisen from the extension of scholastic privileges to multitudes who have not the means of travel , and also from the fact that ...
... man's mental discipline from schools of learning is a modern , and specially an American idea . Here it has arisen from the extension of scholastic privileges to multitudes who have not the means of travel , and also from the fact that ...
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