Major Writers of America, Volume 1Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 Selections from the writings of fifteen important American authors, including portions of novels, short stories, prose and poems. |
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Page 507
... fear is a thing which a scholar by his very function puts behind him . Fear always springs from ignorance . It is a shame to him if his tranquillity , amid dangerous times , arise from the presumption that like children and women his is ...
... fear is a thing which a scholar by his very function puts behind him . Fear always springs from ignorance . It is a shame to him if his tranquillity , amid dangerous times , arise from the presumption that like children and women his is ...
Page 528
... fear the trans - Alpine good , so that his fear , his coldness , his custom may be broken up like frag- ments of ice , melted and carried away in the great stream of good will . Do you ask my aid ? I also wish to be a benefactor . I ...
... fear the trans - Alpine good , so that his fear , his coldness , his custom may be broken up like frag- ments of ice , melted and carried away in the great stream of good will . Do you ask my aid ? I also wish to be a benefactor . I ...
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... fear of it , a fear more prevalent in highly civilized communities than those so - called barbarous ones which in all re- spects stand nearer to unadulterate Nature . And , as elsewhere said , a barbarian Billy radically was ; as much ...
... fear of it , a fear more prevalent in highly civilized communities than those so - called barbarous ones which in all re- spects stand nearer to unadulterate Nature . And , as elsewhere said , a barbarian Billy radically was ; as much ...
Contents
WILLIAM BRADFORD | 3 |
My Father and Your Father To | 4 |
Introduction | 10 |
Copyright | |
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