Anglo-American Literature and Manners, etc. [Translated by Donald Macleod.]Charles Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... destroyed credulity and glory . That is all . I would not sacrifice to courageous souls all independence and spiritual grace ; but I say that the one builds , where the other de- stroys . I say that Moral Force is essential to the ...
... destroyed credulity and glory . That is all . I would not sacrifice to courageous souls all independence and spiritual grace ; but I say that the one builds , where the other de- stroys . I say that Moral Force is essential to the ...
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... destroy him , the republicans would not sustain him ; his position is factitious ; he is not listened to . Dictator a fort- night ago , he has now lost his influence . Then , he decided all ; now , nothing . They keep him because they ...
... destroy him , the republicans would not sustain him ; his position is factitious ; he is not listened to . Dictator a fort- night ago , he has now lost his influence . Then , he decided all ; now , nothing . They keep him because they ...
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... destroys them . Washington Irving , more modest and happier , has not pre- tended to so much grandeur ; he owes the renown which encircles him , not to sallies of the imagination , creative thought or a lofty mental flight , but to a ...
... destroys them . Washington Irving , more modest and happier , has not pre- tended to so much grandeur ; he owes the renown which encircles him , not to sallies of the imagination , creative thought or a lofty mental flight , but to a ...
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... destroyed even the fresh grots of Hoboken . " What Irving has of inmost and truest , comes from these al- most Dutch souvenirs of his childhood . He went no farther than the flowery Isle of Manhattan or the neighboring shores ; his ...
... destroyed even the fresh grots of Hoboken . " What Irving has of inmost and truest , comes from these al- most Dutch souvenirs of his childhood . He went no farther than the flowery Isle of Manhattan or the neighboring shores ; his ...
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... destroy it ; the dis- tracted and embarassed attention loses itself in this confused mass of minute particulars . Instead of disposing of his materials , arranging , commanding them as a master , he sometimes lets them get the better of ...
... destroy it ; the dis- tracted and embarassed attention loses itself in this confused mass of minute particulars . Instead of disposing of his materials , arranging , commanding them as a master , he sometimes lets them get the better of ...
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