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The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from the Writings ... - Page 421
by Edmund Burke - 1798 - 499 pages
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Early difficulties in writing Latin

George Perkins - Latin language - 1869 - 60 pages
...old warning of the church, Sursum corda. We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the 1 Something of this sort : ' Quum multa alia animum meum terrent turn illud imprimis.' dignity of this...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...warning of the church, sursum corda ! We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By...adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive,...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...warning of the Church, Sursum forda .'*" We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust t honorable mover, the world will then see what it...is we destroy, and what it is we create. By that t ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire, and have made the most extensive...
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The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from Some of the Best British and ...

George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...warning of the Church, Siirsum Corda ! * We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By...adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive,...
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Beeton's Public Speaker. A Collection of Specimens of British and Foreign ...

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 pages
...empire and little minds go ill together We ought to elevate our thoughts to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By...adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive...
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Centennial Offering: Republication of the Principles and Acts of the ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1876 - 536 pages
...warning of the church, fur sum corda I We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By...adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive,...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...warning of the Church, Sursum corda ! We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust- to which the order of Providence has called us. By...adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire, and have made the most extensive...
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...warning of the Church, Sursum corda!* We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire, and have made the most extensive...
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The Literary Reader: Typical Selections Form Some of the Best British and ...

George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 pages
...warning of the Church, Sursum Corda ! * We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By...adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive,...
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The treasury of British eloquence, compiled by R. Cochrane

Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...warning of the Church, Sursum corda,t* We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust ars have ravaged these lands and depopulated these...villages ! No desolating foreign foe ! No domestic ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire, and have made the most extensive...
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