American Literature: From the beginning to 1860.-v. 2. From 1860 to the presentC. Scribner's Sons, 1948 |
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... truth are real and uniform ; and the rational mind by reasoning discerns the uniformity and is thereby enabled to make a just com- position of ideas , which will stand the test of truth . But the fantastical illumina- tions of the ...
... truth are real and uniform ; and the rational mind by reasoning discerns the uniformity and is thereby enabled to make a just com- position of ideas , which will stand the test of truth . But the fantastical illumina- tions of the ...
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... truth or by sophisticating his truths with human medleys : the removing of some one iota in Scripture may draw out all the life and traverse all the truth of the whole Bible : but to authorize an untruth by a toleration of state is to ...
... truth or by sophisticating his truths with human medleys : the removing of some one iota in Scripture may draw out all the life and traverse all the truth of the whole Bible : but to authorize an untruth by a toleration of state is to ...
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... Truth . Every poem , it is said , should inculcate a moral , and by this moral is the poetical merit of the work to be adjudged . We Americans especially have patronized this happy idea , and we Bostonians very especially have developed ...
... Truth . Every poem , it is said , should inculcate a moral , and by this moral is the poetical merit of the work to be adjudged . We Americans especially have patronized this happy idea , and we Bostonians very especially have developed ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
From The Vinland History of the Flat | 15 |
MARTIN WALDSEEMÜLLER | 23 |
Copyright | |
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