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27 Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit . Poverty is a spur to
action . Bulwer - Lytton : Caxtoniana . Essay xxii . Motive Power . Actions of the
last age are like almanacs of the last year . Sir John Denham : The Sophy . A
Tragedy ...
27 Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit . Poverty is a spur to
action . Bulwer - Lytton : Caxtoniana . Essay xxii . Motive Power . Actions of the
last age are like almanacs of the last year . Sir John Denham : The Sophy . A
Tragedy ...
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64 Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit . The Press . 66 . 67
ADVICE Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance , or , rather ,
have made it desired . 65 Amiel : Journal , Dec . 29 , 1871 . ( Mrs . Humphrey
Ward ...
64 Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit . The Press . 66 . 67
ADVICE Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance , or , rather ,
have made it desired . 65 Amiel : Journal , Dec . 29 , 1871 . ( Mrs . Humphrey
Ward ...
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Sc . 1 . ARISTOCRACY . Natural aristocracy is the eminence of men over their
fellows in real mind and soul . 185 Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from
Plymouth Pulpit . . Those families , you know , are our upper - crust , not upper ten
thousand ...
Sc . 1 . ARISTOCRACY . Natural aristocracy is the eminence of men over their
fellows in real mind and soul . 185 Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from
Plymouth Pulpit . . Those families , you know , are our upper - crust , not upper ten
thousand ...
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251 Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit . Art is a manly
business , if ever any human occupation could be called manly , for the utmost
efforts of the strongest men are needed for success in it . 252 Hamerton :
Intellectual Life .
251 Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit . Art is a manly
business , if ever any human occupation could be called manly , for the utmost
efforts of the strongest men are needed for success in it . 252 Hamerton :
Intellectual Life .
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290 H enry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit . He who writes prose
builds his temple to fame in rubble . He who writes verses builds it in granite . 291
Bulwer - Lytton : Caxtoniana . Essay xxvii . Writers , especially when they act in ...
290 H enry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit . He who writes prose
builds his temple to fame in rubble . He who writes verses builds it in granite . 291
Bulwer - Lytton : Caxtoniana . Essay xxvii . Writers , especially when they act in ...
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| Title | A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient Sources The Astor prose series |
| Editor | Anna Lydia Ward |
| Publisher | T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1889 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 701 pages |
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