There is once in a while, through the quality is rare, an author, a historian, or a writer of fiction, or a preacher, or a pastor, or an orator or poet, or an influential or beloved citizen, who in everything he says or does seems to be sending a personal message from himself.
Hoar describes the rare quality of certain individuals who convey personal messages through their work.
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As it is, the jetties have been of great value and well worth their cost.
Perhaps, taking him all together, the most brilliant man in Harvard in my time was John Felton.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
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