Anglo-American Literature and Manners, etc. [Translated by Donald Macleod.]Charles Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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Page 13
... come from the other world to assist at this great drama , by an American , a member of the Congress where Washington and Franklin sate . Democrat by fact and not by theory he knows how liberty is established . He does not recall the ...
... come from the other world to assist at this great drama , by an American , a member of the Congress where Washington and Franklin sate . Democrat by fact and not by theory he knows how liberty is established . He does not recall the ...
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... comes from having sanguine expectation of a downright republican form of government . The literary people here , observing the abuses of their monarchical form , imagine that everything must go the better in proportion as it recedes ...
... comes from having sanguine expectation of a downright republican form of government . The literary people here , observing the abuses of their monarchical form , imagine that everything must go the better in proportion as it recedes ...
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... come till after five . A number of persons surround the windows , and doubtless form a high idea of the company , to whom they are obliged to look up at an awful distance . Ah , did they but know how trivial the conversation , how very ...
... come till after five . A number of persons surround the windows , and doubtless form a high idea of the company , to whom they are obliged to look up at an awful distance . Ah , did they but know how trivial the conversation , how very ...
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... comes in during the conversation , shows still more ill - will to this unfortunate man than any one else . He seems to flatter himself that there is yet some chance of getting him hanged . He treats him not only as having been deficient ...
... comes in during the conversation , shows still more ill - will to this unfortunate man than any one else . He seems to flatter himself that there is yet some chance of getting him hanged . He treats him not only as having been deficient ...
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... comes to break- fast . Walk with him and endeavor to dissuade him from his projected journey to New Orleans . He is at length shaken , and would renounce it if his preparations were not too far advanced . " I persist , and at length ...
... comes to break- fast . Walk with him and endeavor to dissuade him from his projected journey to New Orleans . He is at length shaken , and would renounce it if his preparations were not too far advanced . " I persist , and at length ...
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