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American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the Most ... - Page 368
1857
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Washington's Farewell Address, and Webster's Bunker Hill Orations

George Washington - 1915 - 216 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust,0 and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...and more extended, this conviction becomes more and in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. The prayer of the Grecian champion,...
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The Miller-Palmer High School English

William Dana Miller, Mrs. Margaret Wilhelmine Oberempt Palmer - English language - 1918 - 560 pages
...7. For fully two months they (the trees) stood in the snow in black armor of iron bark unshaken. 8. Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. WEBSTER 9. With a few rough bits of track ahead and some steep grades Congress leaders to-day began...
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American Democracy from Washington to Wilson: Addresses and State Papers

John Huston Finley - Democracy - 1919 - 374 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust,0 and that they cannot be 25 lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...scattered with all its beams. The prayer of the Grecian 30 champion, when enveloped in unnatural clouds and darkness, is the appropriate political supplication...
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Reading-literature, Book 8

1919 - 478 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...scattered with all its beams. The prayer of the Grecian champion when enveloped in unnatural clouds and darkness is the appropriate political supplication...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but w champion, when enveloped in unnatural clouds and darkness, is the appropriate political supplication...
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American Patriotism in Prose and Verse, 1775-1918

Jesse Madison Gathany - Patriotic poetry, American - 1919 - 342 pages
...that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be law- 25 fully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...scattered with all its beams. The prayer of the Grecian 30 champion, when enveloped in unnatural clouds and darkness, is the appropriate political supplication...
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Landmarks of Liberty: The Growth of American Political Ideals as Recorded in ...

Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1920 - 296 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...scattered with all its beams. The prayer of the Grecian champion, when enveloped in unnatural clouds and darkness, is the appropriate political supplication...
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Human Engineering: A Reference Book on the Dynamic Mind Fundamentals ...

Richard H. Mulliner - Success - 1920 - 396 pages
...the differences. — Chinese Proverb. The dignity of truth is lost by much protesting. — Johnson. Knowledge in truth is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are so scattered with all its beams. — Webster. There is nothing so powerful as truth, — and often...
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Landmarks of Liberty: The Growth of American Political Ideals as Recorded in ...

Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1922 - 360 pages
...government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the C9mmunity. As knowledge is more and more extended, this conviction...scattered with all its beams. The prayer of the Grecian champion, when enveloped in unnatural clouds and darkness, is the appropriate political supplication...
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...calces. For it shows want of knowledge to kick against the goad. TERENCE— Phormio. I. 24. 27. 15 o our ball. PKAED — Our Ball. 19 I saw her at a...country ball ; There when the sound of flute and fiddl DANIEL WEBSTER — Address. Delivered at the Laying of the Corner-Stone of Bunker Hill Monument, 1825....
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