Anglo-American Literature and Manners, etc. [Translated by Donald Macleod.]Charles Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... thought would have 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 ...
... thought would have 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 ...
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... thought : good sense , lucidity , benevolence , delicate and sportive unction . He addresses himself neither to souvenirs , nor to hopes ; not one shadow of passion mingles with his language . It is rustic and pleasing , a prudence ...
... thought : good sense , lucidity , benevolence , delicate and sportive unction . He addresses himself neither to souvenirs , nor to hopes ; not one shadow of passion mingles with his language . It is rustic and pleasing , a prudence ...
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... thought is plunged as soon as he approaches the theories of Free will . In these three writers you admire a fertile naïveté , a happy facility , a ripened , sagacious reason - but no imagination . The American Cultivator only , by the ...
... thought is plunged as soon as he approaches the theories of Free will . In these three writers you admire a fertile naïveté , a happy facility , a ripened , sagacious reason - but no imagination . The American Cultivator only , by the ...
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... thought they could make liberty as Rousseau had made virtue - by declamation . This frightened a foreigner who had seen a true liberty develop itself by mere moral force . He could not forget that he had taken a very active part ...
... thought they could make liberty as Rousseau had made virtue - by declamation . This frightened a foreigner who had seen a true liberty develop itself by mere moral force . He could not forget that he had taken a very active part ...
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... thought singular in America ; it is the emphasis of his writings , the philosophic and false sensibility which makes the fortune of modern romances , and which he puts into his books upon finance ; that pleases the French . Here one ...
... thought singular in America ; it is the emphasis of his writings , the philosophic and false sensibility which makes the fortune of modern romances , and which he puts into his books upon finance ; that pleases the French . Here one ...
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