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We cannot conceive how we came here ourselves , and yet we know for a fact that we are here . We must know also that the Power that called us into being , can , if He pleases , and when He pleases , call us to account for the manner in ...
We cannot conceive how we came here ourselves , and yet we know for a fact that we are here . We must know also that the Power that called us into being , can , if He pleases , and when He pleases , call us to account for the manner in ...
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With me this is not so . In childhood I must have felt with the energy of a man what I now find stamped upon memory in lines as vivid , as deep , and as durable as the exergues of the Carthaginian medals . " Yet in fact ...
With me this is not so . In childhood I must have felt with the energy of a man what I now find stamped upon memory in lines as vivid , as deep , and as durable as the exergues of the Carthaginian medals . " Yet in fact ...
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation , and on the other to morals . ... One class has the perception of difference , and is conversant with facts and surfaces , cities and persons , and the bringing of certain things to pass ...
Every fact is related on one side to sensation , and on the other to morals . ... One class has the perception of difference , and is conversant with facts and surfaces , cities and persons , and the bringing of certain things to pass ...
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| Title | American Literature: From the beginning to 1860.-v. 2. From 1860 to the present Volume 1 of American Literature: An Anthology and Critical Survey, John Towner Frederick |
| Author | John Towner Frederick |
| Editors | Joe Lee Davis, John Towner Frederick, Frank Luther Mott |
| Compiled by | Joe Lee Davis, John Towner Frederick, Frank Luther Mott |
| Publisher | C. Scribner's Sons, 1948 |
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