Anglo-American Literature and Manners, etc. [Translated by Donald Macleod.]Charles Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... ideas , such as belong to hunger , thirst , the material wants of man . But they led lives of agitation ; a thousand ... idea which was not taken from Nature or History ? The critics , born in such days as ours , only talk of crea- tion ...
... ideas , such as belong to hunger , thirst , the material wants of man . But they led lives of agitation ; a thousand ... idea which was not taken from Nature or History ? The critics , born in such days as ours , only talk of crea- tion ...
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... idea is exaggerated and absurd . Yet after all , these disproportions , these mon- sters , these daubs , are but ... ideas without harmony . The imagination of men of genius , produces the passions and scenes of the world , as a faithful ...
... idea is exaggerated and absurd . Yet after all , these disproportions , these mon- sters , these daubs , are but ... ideas without harmony . The imagination of men of genius , produces the passions and scenes of the world , as a faithful ...
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... ideas of a new country ; you see the author attaching his child's wagon to the plough which he guides , and so conducting along the furrows traced by the share , his little one and his plough , while his wife , seated under a tree at ...
... ideas of a new country ; you see the author attaching his child's wagon to the plough which he guides , and so conducting along the furrows traced by the share , his little one and his plough , while his wife , seated under a tree at ...
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... ideas ; for a capital which has known the Regency and Louis XV .; for men who have read Rousseau after leaving the petit souper , and who though kneaded in monarchy are yet drunk with patriotic desires , and who run with the passions of ...
... ideas ; for a capital which has known the Regency and Louis XV .; for men who have read Rousseau after leaving the petit souper , and who though kneaded in monarchy are yet drunk with patriotic desires , and who run with the passions of ...
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... idea can be communicated . A hundred anecdotes , and a hundred thou- sand examples , are required to show the extreme rottenness of every member . There are men and women who are greatly and eminently virtuous . I have the pleasure to ...
... idea can be communicated . A hundred anecdotes , and a hundred thou- sand examples , are required to show the extreme rottenness of every member . There are men and women who are greatly and eminently virtuous . I have the pleasure to ...
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