The Story of Wendell Phillips Soldier of the Common Good
The book The Story of Wendell Phillips Soldier of the Common Good was written by author Russell, Charles Edward, 1860-1941 Here you can read free online of The Story of Wendell Phillips Soldier of the Common Good book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Story of Wendell Phillips Soldier of the Common Good a good or bad book?
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Yet it is the unvarying testimony on all sides that he never once departed from the one atti tude of kindly devotion ; he was invariably the gallant and attentive lover. In a season when she seemed to be more than usually ill he did not leave the house for sixty days, spending all his waking hours about her bed side. Surely an exceptional man! The charm of his wonderful oratory and the magnetism of his presence sometimes won him a hearing from assemblies that detested his opinions. Thus " The L...ost Arts " spread his fame and enlarged his audiences. It is re corded of many communities that with trepida tion and misgiving they engaged him to deliver this lecture, expecting to see some raging per son, full of sound and fury and bellowing like ON THE FIRING LINES 61 a bull ; for newspapers had created and per sistently spread the belief that he was a fire- eater, a dangerous maniac and an unqualified liar. When he stepped upon the stage, so evidently a man of learning and refinement, and with his bell-like voice began so quietly to ad dress them in polished phrases, speaking in dubitable truth, they were stricken with a comical amazement.
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