 | Irvah Lester Winter - Elocution - 1912 - 454 pages
...gratification and delight, rather. I thank God that, if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none,...or elsewhere, to sneer at public merit because it happens to spring up beyond the little limits of my own State or neighborhood ; when I refuse, for... | |
 | Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - Orator - 1912 - 428 pages
...gratification and delight, rather. I thank God that if I cm gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none,...or elsewhere, to sneer at public merit because it happens to spring up beyond the little limits of my own state or neighborhood ; when I refuse, for... | |
 | Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - Orator - 1912 - 428 pages
...skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down. When I shalt be found, sir, in my place here in the Senate, or elsewhere, to sneer at public merit because it happens to spring up beyond the little limits of my own state or neighborhood ; when I refuse, for... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - Elocution - 1913 - 632 pages
...gratification and delight, rather. I thank God, that, if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none,...or elsewhere, to sneer at public merit because it happens to spring up beyond the limits of my own State or neighborhood; when I refuse, for any such... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - Elocution - 1913 - 316 pages
...gratification and delight, rather. I thank God that, if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none,...or elsewhere, to sneer at public merit, because it happens to spring up beyond the little limits of my own State or neighborhood ; when I refuse, for... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - Recitations - 1914 - 372 pages
...gratification and delight, rather. I thank God, that, if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is 25 able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none,...or elsewhere, to sneer at public merit because it happens to spring up beyond the limits of my own State or neighborhood ; when I refuse, for any such... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - United States - 1914 - 786 pages
...that, if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have'yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit, which would...or elsewhere, to sneer at public merit, because it happens to spring up beyond the little limits of my own State or neighborhood; when I refuse, for any... | |
 | Augustus White Long - American prose literature - 1917 - 458 pages
...gratification and delight, rather. I thank God that, if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none,...or elsewhere, to sneer at public merit, because it happens to spring up beyond the little limits of my own State or neighborhood; when I refuse, for any... | |
 | Richard Dennis Teall Hollister - Oratory - 1918 - 422 pages
...do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." "When I shall be found, sir, in my place here in the...or elsewhere, to sneer at public merit because it happens to spring up beyond the little limits of my own state or neighborhood; when I refuse for any... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - Readers - 1919 - 458 pages
...gratification and delight rather. I thank God that, 10 if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none,...Senate, or elsewhere, to sneer at public merit, because i5 it happens to spring up beyond the little limits of my own State or neighborhood ; when I refuse,... | |
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State or neighborhood ; when I refuse for any such cause, or for any cause, the homage due to American talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion, to liberty and the country ; or if I see an uncommon endowment of heaven, if I... 
