Anglo-American Literature and Manners, etc. [Translated by Donald Macleod.]Charles Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... produced but mean or gross ideas , such as belong to hunger , thirst , the material wants of man . But they led lives of agitation ; a thousand varied impressions were profoundly engraved upon their minds which were endowed by Nature ...
... produced but mean or gross ideas , such as belong to hunger , thirst , the material wants of man . But they led lives of agitation ; a thousand varied impressions were profoundly engraved upon their minds which were endowed by Nature ...
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... produced by the old Literature when it fell into barbarity ; hence the unheard- of personages who people our ... produces the passions and scenes of the world , as a faithful and polished mirror repro- duces a beautiful country or a ...
... produced by the old Literature when it fell into barbarity ; hence the unheard- of personages who people our ... produces the passions and scenes of the world , as a faithful and polished mirror repro- duces a beautiful country or a ...
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... produced upon him by the universal enthusiasm , by the manner of the court , by the blundering fervor of the ad- vocates , the lawyers , the men of letters , is far from favor- able . He finds no where that religious profundity of sensa ...
... produced upon him by the universal enthusiasm , by the manner of the court , by the blundering fervor of the ad- vocates , the lawyers , the men of letters , is far from favor- able . He finds no where that religious profundity of sensa ...
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... produced . " The Alas ! Morris touched the wound with his finger . There were certainly too many sounding words in all that — the man of letters and the rhetorician had too much to do with our first revolution . Men had too much faith ...
... produced . " The Alas ! Morris touched the wound with his finger . There were certainly too many sounding words in all that — the man of letters and the rhetorician had too much to do with our first revolution . Men had too much faith ...
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... are about the Prince , and by that means to produce the mischief we mean to avoid . ” ( ( Dresden , August 19th . - In the streets are many French emigrants , who are travelling eastward to avoid their country- 30 ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF.
... are about the Prince , and by that means to produce the mischief we mean to avoid . ” ( ( Dresden , August 19th . - In the streets are many French emigrants , who are travelling eastward to avoid their country- 30 ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF.
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