Text-book of Prose, from Burke, Webster, and Bacon, with Notes, and Sketches of the Authors' Lives, for Use in Schools and ClassesGinn, Heath, & Company, 1881 |
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Page 326
... popular than the latter . For instance , two pages will be given to Mac- aulay , or to a writer of still lower grade , where one is given to Jeremy Taylor or Addison or Burke . So , again , some fifth - rate or sixth - rate author ...
... popular than the latter . For instance , two pages will be given to Mac- aulay , or to a writer of still lower grade , where one is given to Jeremy Taylor or Addison or Burke . So , again , some fifth - rate or sixth - rate author ...
Page 327
... popular mind is indeed busy enough with the vulgar politics of the hour ; but in the true grounds and forces of social and political well - being it is discouragingly ignorant , while it is more and more casting off those habits of mod ...
... popular mind is indeed busy enough with the vulgar politics of the hour ; but in the true grounds and forces of social and political well - being it is discouragingly ignorant , while it is more and more casting off those habits of mod ...
Page 330
... popularity . " The thought of popular favour has had no part or lot in the preparation of it . For I know right well that , in prepara- tions of this sort , a great many people altogether prefer something which may seem to teach a ...
... popularity . " The thought of popular favour has had no part or lot in the preparation of it . For I know right well that , in prepara- tions of this sort , a great many people altogether prefer something which may seem to teach a ...
Page 357
... popular addresses ; over whatever the pulpit , in its moments of alarm , the press in its heats , and parties in their extravagance , have severally thrown off in times of general excitement and vio- lence . He has thus swept together a ...
... popular addresses ; over whatever the pulpit , in its moments of alarm , the press in its heats , and parties in their extravagance , have severally thrown off in times of general excitement and vio- lence . He has thus swept together a ...
Page 358
... popular governments . With a great deal of proper and deco- rous discussion , there was mingled a great deal , also , of decla- mation , virulence , crimination , and abuse . In regard to any party , probably , at one of the leading ...
... popular governments . With a great deal of proper and deco- rous discussion , there was mingled a great deal , also , of decla- mation , virulence , crimination , and abuse . In regard to any party , probably , at one of the leading ...
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