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... speech . I desire to consider some of the elements of this , regarded as a source of intellectual enjoyment . In all intercourse with the best writers , whether in prose or verse , our minds have , no doubt , an unconscious perception ...
... speech . I desire to consider some of the elements of this , regarded as a source of intellectual enjoyment . In all intercourse with the best writers , whether in prose or verse , our minds have , no doubt , an unconscious perception ...
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... speech , even more than reason , distinguishes man from the brute ; and that the two powers , in their mysterious union , lift him out of barbarism . Whatever it may be , whether the rude and imperfect speech of the savage , articulate ...
... speech , even more than reason , distinguishes man from the brute ; and that the two powers , in their mysterious union , lift him out of barbarism . Whatever it may be , whether the rude and imperfect speech of the savage , articulate ...
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... speech . That speech runs the career of the race that uses it , and the speed and the spread of that career have , perhaps , had more help from the speech than philosophy has dreamed of . Little more than two hundred years ago , Lord ...
... speech . That speech runs the career of the race that uses it , and the speed and the spread of that career have , perhaps , had more help from the speech than philosophy has dreamed of . Little more than two hundred years ago , Lord ...
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... speech unknown Made never traffic of our style . " Again , however , with truer and more hopeful vision , he exclaims , " Who knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue ? To what strange shores This gain of our best glory will ...
... speech unknown Made never traffic of our style . " Again , however , with truer and more hopeful vision , he exclaims , " Who knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue ? To what strange shores This gain of our best glory will ...
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... speech . But , without venturing into the uncertain- ties of the future , see how our language has an abode , far and wide , in the islands of the earth , and how , in India , it has travelled northward till it has struck the ancient ...
... speech . But , without venturing into the uncertain- ties of the future , see how our language has an abode , far and wide , in the islands of the earth , and how , in India , it has travelled northward till it has struck the ancient ...
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