Anglo-American Literature and Manners, etc. [Translated by Donald Macleod.]Charles Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... Letters of an American Planter - Jonathan Edwards , SEC . IV . - Gouverneur Morris - The American Aristocrat - Paris observed from 1789 to 1792 , by a Founder of the American Confederation , SEC . V. - Morris at Paris from 1789 to 1792 ...
... Letters of an American Planter - Jonathan Edwards , SEC . IV . - Gouverneur Morris - The American Aristocrat - Paris observed from 1789 to 1792 , by a Founder of the American Confederation , SEC . V. - Morris at Paris from 1789 to 1792 ...
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... LETTERS OF AN AMERICAN PLANTER - JONATHAN EDWARDS . I have already spoken of Franklin , type of the national genius ; consummate politician , subtle dialectician , a lover of the useful . His style has the qualities of his thought ...
... LETTERS OF AN AMERICAN PLANTER - JONATHAN EDWARDS . I have already spoken of Franklin , type of the national genius ; consummate politician , subtle dialectician , a lover of the useful . His style has the qualities of his thought ...
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... letter to Morris , ) ( 6 are adventurers whom the waste of their own resources sends to us , or spies paid by foreign govern- ments to watch our movements , or men whose souls are given up to a vain desire of glory , which would make ...
... letter to Morris , ) ( 6 are adventurers whom the waste of their own resources sends to us , or spies paid by foreign govern- ments to watch our movements , or men whose souls are given up to a vain desire of glory , which would make ...
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... letters to his friends , and charged him — a characteristic detail- " to buy him at Paris , a flat gold watch , without any ornament ; not , " says the letter , " the watch of a fool or of a man who desires to make a show , but of which ...
... letters to his friends , and charged him — a characteristic detail- " to buy him at Paris , a flat gold watch , without any ornament ; not , " says the letter , " the watch of a fool or of a man who desires to make a show , but of which ...
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... letters , is far from favor- able . He finds no where that religious profundity of sensa- tion and decision which is a pledge of a people's future . stead of admitting the zeal for a purely theoretic liberty ; instead of getting ...
... letters , is far from favor- able . He finds no where that religious profundity of sensa- tion and decision which is a pledge of a people's future . stead of admitting the zeal for a purely theoretic liberty ; instead of getting ...
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