Anglo-American Literature and Manners, etc. [Translated by Donald Macleod.]Charles Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... that what may not be true of their own immediate society , may be very true of some other portion of this vast com- munity - indeed , what is there not in this huge country ? It is hoped that few errors will be found in.
... that what may not be true of their own immediate society , may be very true of some other portion of this vast com- munity - indeed , what is there not in this huge country ? It is hoped that few errors will be found in.
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... society would not have been founded . Our Puritans believed ; they knew how to wait , fight , suffer , and these are great qualities . Half a century later , Bayle sought an asylum in another city of that same Holland , refuge and ...
... society would not have been founded . Our Puritans believed ; they knew how to wait , fight , suffer , and these are great qualities . Half a century later , Bayle sought an asylum in another city of that same Holland , refuge and ...
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... society . Now this Moral Force existed in its highest degree in the little Puritan colony carried by the May Flower . Its true originality was neither chivalric grace nor intellectual bril- liancy . The colonists had only that Calvinist ...
... society . Now this Moral Force existed in its highest degree in the little Puritan colony carried by the May Flower . Its true originality was neither chivalric grace nor intellectual bril- liancy . The colonists had only that Calvinist ...
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... society and manners , is a branch detached from the tree , and deprived of its sap . Scotland , even , is proud of her dialect : she has her poet Burns , whose inspiration was at once extinguished when he became unfaithful to the patois ...
... society and manners , is a branch detached from the tree , and deprived of its sap . Scotland , even , is proud of her dialect : she has her poet Burns , whose inspiration was at once extinguished when he became unfaithful to the patois ...
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... society is melted to be recast . Does he consider this vehe- mence as a pledge of duration ; this powerful ebulition as a proof of strength ? He has seen our Mirabeaus , our Camille Desmoulins ; he has watched them as they worked ; he ...
... society is melted to be recast . Does he consider this vehe- mence as a pledge of duration ; this powerful ebulition as a proof of strength ? He has seen our Mirabeaus , our Camille Desmoulins ; he has watched them as they worked ; he ...
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