A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged: With Biographical Sketches of the AuthorsJ.A. Bancroft, 1859 - 784 pages |
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... thoughts were , of course , directed to our own condition , to our relations to the mother country , to our forms of ... thought , for just and sound reasoning , and for effective and lofty elo- quence , the world had never seen the ...
... thoughts were , of course , directed to our own condition , to our relations to the mother country , to our forms of ... thought , for just and sound reasoning , and for effective and lofty elo- quence , the world had never seen the ...
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... thought and action . But after him , the number that might , with some show of reason , put in their claim to come within the scope of such a work , increased more and more , until it has , within the past thirty years , become so great ...
... thought and action . But after him , the number that might , with some show of reason , put in their claim to come within the scope of such a work , increased more and more , until it has , within the past thirty years , become so great ...
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... thought that I might not inaptly be compared to the simpleton in Hierocles , who , when he had a house for sale , carried about a brick in his pocket as a specimen . But the idea also occurred to me that the Grecian was not so far wrong ...
... thought that I might not inaptly be compared to the simpleton in Hierocles , who , when he had a house for sale , carried about a brick in his pocket as a specimen . But the idea also occurred to me that the Grecian was not so far wrong ...
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... thought a hard government that should tax its people one - tenth part of their time , to be employed in its service ; but idleness taxes many of us much more ; sloth , by bringing on diseases , absolutely shortens life . Sloth , like ...
... thought a hard government that should tax its people one - tenth part of their time , to be employed in its service ; but idleness taxes many of us much more ; sloth , by bringing on diseases , absolutely shortens life . Sloth , like ...
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... thought I , " it is hard enough to turn a grindstone this cold day ; but now to be called a little rascal is too much . " It sank deep in my mind ; and often have I thought of it since . When I see a merchant over polite to his ...
... thought I , " it is hard enough to turn a grindstone this cold day ; but now to be called a little rascal is too much . " It sank deep in my mind ; and often have I thought of it since . When I see a merchant over polite to his ...
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